[AArch64][2.26] Backport ARMv8.2 FP16 AdvSIMD and Statistical Profiling support.

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 11 Dec 2015, at 14:09, Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@foss.arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can I backport the patches to support the FP16 AdvSimd instruction and
> the Statistical Profiling extension to the 2.26 branch?
> 
> The FP16 AdvSIMD patches have been submitted for trunk:
> Patch 1/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00205.html
> Patch 2/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00206.html
> Patch 3/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00207.html
> Patch 4/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00208.html
> Patch 5/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00209.html
> Patch 6/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00210.html
> Patch 7/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00211.html
> Patch 8/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00212.html
> Patch 9/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00213.html
> Patch 10/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00214.html
> Patch 11/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00215.html
> Patch 12/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00216.html
> Patch 13/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00217.html
> Patch 14/14: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-12/msg00218.html

Yes, once they are approved for the trunk.

> The Statistical Profiling support has been committed to trunk:
> Patch 1/5: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-12/msg00110.html
> Patch 2/5: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-12/msg00111.html
> Patch 3/5: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-12/msg00112.html
> Patch 4/5: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-12/msg00113.html
> Patch 5/5: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2015-12/msg00114.html

Yes.