Re: [AArch64][gas][2.25] Backport support for Cortex-A72

[Matthew Wahab <matthew dot wahab at arm dot com>]

Ping.

A rebased and retested patch is attached.

Matthew

On 12/02/15 13:37, Marcus Shawcroft wrote:
> On 11 February 2015 at 14:29, Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@arm.com> wrote:
> > This patch backports to binutils-2.25 support for the Cortex-A72 in the
> > AArch64 backend.
> >
> > The trunk change is here:
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-02/msg00025.html.
> > The commit log is here:
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-02/msg00031.html.
> >
> > Tested with check-gas for aarch64-none-linux-gnu, no failures.
> >
> > Ok for the branch?
> > Matthew
> >
> > gas/
> > 2015-02-11  Matthew Wahab  <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
> >
> >          * config/tc-aarch64.c: Add support for Cortex-A72.
> >          * doc/c-aarch64.texi (-mcpu=): Add "cortex-a72".
>
> This patch, although not a bug fix, is likely to be useful in the
> short term because gcc5 will accept -mcpu=cortex-a72 and hence may
> inject .cpu cortex-a72 directives.  I think we should take this back
> port to binutils 2.25, however we need Tristan to agree first.
> Tristan?
>
> Thanks
> /Marcus
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
index 0e58764..de4e203 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
@@ -7184,6 +7184,8 @@ static const struct aarch64_cpu_option_table aarch64_cpus[] = {
 				 AARCH64_FEATURE_CRC), "Cortex-A53"},
   {"cortex-a57", AARCH64_FEATURE(AARCH64_ARCH_V8,
 				 AARCH64_FEATURE_CRC), "Cortex-A57"},
+  {"cortex-a72", AARCH64_FEATURE (AARCH64_ARCH_V8,
+				  AARCH64_FEATURE_CRC), "Cortex-A72"},
   /* The 'xgene-1' name is an older name for 'xgene1', which was used
      in earlier releases and is superseded by 'xgene1' in all
      tools.  */
diff --git a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
index 8fbae06..cb94251 100644
--- a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ message if an attempt is made to assemble an instruction which will not execute
 on the target processor.  The following processor names are recognized:
 @code{cortex-a53},
 @code{cortex-a57},
+@code{cortex-a72},
 @code{xgene1},
 and
 @code{xgene2}.