On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:34:53AM -0800, Jim Wilson wrote:
> This adds an option for the Qualcomm server parts, qdf24xx, just
> optimizing like a cortex-a57 for now, same as how the initial Samsung
> exynos-m1 support worked.
> 
> This was tested with armv8 and aarch64 bootstraps and make check.
> 
> I had to disable the cortex-a57 fma steering pass in the aarch64 port
> while testing the patch.  A bootstrap for aarch64 configured
> --with-cpu=cortex-a57 gives multiple ICEs while building the stage1
> libstdc++.  The ICEs are in scan_rtx_reg at regrename.c:1074.  This
> looks vaguely similar to PR 66785.
> 
> I am also seeing extra make check failures due to ICEs with armv8
> bootstrap builds configured --with-cpu=cortex-a57,  I see ICEs in
> scan_rtx_reg in regrename, and ICEs in decompose_normal_address in
> rtlanal.c.  The arm port doesn't have the fma steering support, which
> seems odd, and is maybe a bug, so it isn't clear what is causing this
> problem.
> 
> I plan to look at these aarch64 and armv8 failures next, including PR
> 66785.  None of these have anything to do with my patch, as they
> trigger for cortex-a57 which is already supported.

The bootstrap bugs should be fixed on trunk as of:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=230149

The AArch64 parts are OK, but the ARM parts look to be missing a hunk to
gcc/config/arm/t-aprofile (and I can't approve those anyway).

Thanks,
James


> Index: gcc/ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> --- gcc/ChangeLog     (revision 230118)
> +++ gcc/ChangeLog     (working copy)
> @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
> +2015-11-10  Jim Wilson  <jim.wil...@linaro.org>
> +
> +     * config/aarch64/aarch64-cores.def (qdf24xx): New.
> +     * config/aarch64/aarch64-tune.md: Regenerated.
> +     * config/arm/arm-cores.def (qdf24xx): New.
> +     * config/arm/arm-tables.opt, config/arm/arm-tune.md: Regenerated.
> +     * config/arm/bpabi.h (BE8_LINK_SPEC): Add qdf24xx support.
> +     * doc/invoke.texi (AArch64 Options/-mtune): Add "qdf24xx".
> +     (ARM Options/-mtune); Likewise.

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