On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Wahab <matthew.wa...@arm.com> wrote: > Hello, > > The Cortex-A72 is an ARMv8 core with the same architectural features as the > Cortex-A57. This patch adds support for the command line option > -mcpu=cortex-a72 with the same effect as the -mcpu=cortex-a57 option, with > only the name being different. It also adds support for the > -mcpu=cortex-a72.cortex-a53 big-little variant. > > Tested with check-gcc for arm-none-linux-gnueabihf. Tested the new cpu > options from the command line. > > Matthew > > gcc/ > 2015-02-04 Matthew Wahab <matthew.wa...@arm.com> > > * config/arm/arm-cores.def: Add cortex-a72 and > cortex-a72.cortex-a53. > * config/arm/bpabi.h (BE8_LINK_SPEC): Likewise. > * config/arm/t-aprofile (MULTILIB_MATCHES): Likewise. > * config/arm/arm-tune.md: Regenerate. > * config/arm/arm-tables.opt: Add entries for "cortex-a72" and > "cortex-a72.cortex-a53". > * doc/invoke.texi (ARM Options/-mtune): Likewise.
This is OK - it's purely wiring up a new name and treating that the same as an existing tune. No new functionality and no point in waiting for a year for this cpu option to be available for folks. Ramana
