On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:42 PM, James Greenhalgh
<james.greenha...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch adds support to the ARM back-end for the Cortex-A35
> processor, as recently announced by ARM. The ARM Cortex-A35 provides
> full support for the ARMv8-A architecture, including the CRC extension,
> with optional Advanced-SIMD and Floating-Point support. We therefore set
> feature flags for this CPU to FL_FOR_ARCH8A and FL_CRC32 and FL_LDSCHED,
> in the same fashion as Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57. While the Cortex-A35
> has dual issue capabilities, we model it with an issue rate of one, with
> the expectation that this will give better schedules when using the
> Cortex-A53 pipeline model.
>
> Bootstrapped with --with-tune=cortex-a35 with no issues.
>
> I'm sorry to have this upstream a little late for the close of Stage 1,
> I wanted to wait for binutils support to be committed. This happened
> on Thursday [1]. If it is OK with the ARM maintainers, I'd like to get
> this in to GCC 6.
>
> OK?

Can you also deal with an entry in the news for GCC6 page ?

Ramana
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> [1]: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-11/msg00065.html
>
> ---
> 2015-11-16  James Greenhalgh  <james.greenha...@arm.com>
>
>         * config/arm/arm-cores.def (cortex-a35): New.
>         * config/arm/arm.c (arm_cortex_a35_tune): New.
>         * config/arm/arm-tables.opt: Regenerate.
>         * config/arm/arm-tune.md: Regenerate.
>         * config/arm/bpabi.h (BE8_LINK_SPEC): Add cortex-a35.
>         * config/arm/t-aprofile: Likewise.
>         * doc/invoke.texi (-mcpu): Likewise.
>

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