Re: [PATCH][gas][ARM] Add support for Cortex-A72

[Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at arm dot com>]

On 11/02/15 03:50, Will Newton wrote:
> On 4 February 2015 at 13:21, Ramana Radhakrishnan
> <ramana.gcc@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@arm.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The Cortex-A72 is an ARMv8 core with the same architectural features as the
> > > Cortex-A57. This patch adds support to GAS for the command line option
> > > -mcpu=cortex-a72 with the same effect as the -mcpu=cortex-a57 option, only
> > > the name being different.
> > >
> > > Tested with check-gas for arm-none-linux-gnueabihf. Tested the new cpu
> > > option from the command line.
> > >
> > > Ok for trunk?
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > > binutils/gas
> > > 2015-02-04  Matthew Wahab  <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
> > >
> > >          * config/tc-arm.c: Add support for Cortex-A72.
> >
> > Ok with a follow up to deal with doc/c-arm.texi
> >
> > regards
> > Ramana
>
> This should be safe for the 2.25 branch too, do you plan to backport it?

I think it makes sense as folks would have this in the distros with the 
next release of the compiler. We should look at breaking this dependancy 
in the compiler if possible but that's not going to happen till stage1 
for 6.0

Tristan, any objections ?

Ramana

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