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[wwwdocs] Document support for Cortex-A72

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Matthew Wahab Feb. 4, 2015, 4:19 p.m. UTC 
Hello,

This patch documents in gcc-5/changes.html the addition of support for 
the Cortex-A72 to the ARM and the AArch64 backends.

Tested by checking the updated webpage in firefox.

Matthew

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Gerald Pfeifer Feb. 4, 2015, 5:34 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wednesday 2015-02-04 16:19, Matthew Wahab wrote:
> This patch documents in gcc-5/changes.html the addition of 
> support for the Cortex-A72 to the ARM and the AArch64 backends.

Looks good to me, but you may want to wait a bit for ARMers to 
chime in.  Or go ahead and thing can always be tweaked later.

Gerald
Marcus Shawcroft Feb. 5, 2015, 9:19 a.m. UTC | #2 
On 4 February 2015 at 17:34, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2015-02-04 16:19, Matthew Wahab wrote:
>>
>> This patch documents in gcc-5/changes.html the addition of support for the
>> Cortex-A72 to the ARM and the AArch64 backends.
>
>
> Looks good to me, but you may want to wait a bit for ARMers to chime in.  Or
> go ahead and thing can always be tweaked later.
>
> Gerald

Looks fine to  me.... /Marcus
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Index: htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff --unified -r1.77 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html	2 Feb 2015 08:49:09 -0000	1.77
+++ htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html	4 Feb 2015 16:12:32 -0000
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ 
      <li>Support for the Cavium ThunderX processor is now available through the
     <code>-mcpu=thunderx</code> and <code>-mtune=thunderx</code> options.
      </li>
+     <li>Support for the Cortex-A72 processor has been added through
+       the <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72</code> option and the big.LITTLE
+       variant <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72.cortex-a53</code>.  Using these options
+       requires a version of GNU binutils that has support for the Cortex-A72.
+     </li>
      <li>The transitional options <code>-mlra</code> and <code>-mno-lra</code>
        have been removed. The AArch64 backend now uses the local register
        allocator (LRA) only.
@@ -513,6 +518,11 @@ 
        <code>-mcpu=cortex-a17.cortex-a7 </code> and
        <code>-mtune=cortex-a17.cortex-a7</code> options.
       </li>
+      <li>Support for the Cortex-A72 processor has been added through
+        the <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72</code> option and the big.LITTLE
+        variant <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72.cortex-a53</code>.  Using these options
+        requires a version of GNU binutils that has support for the Cortex-A72.
+      </li>
       <li> The deprecated option <code>-mwords-little-endian</code>
        has been removed.
       </li>