[PATCH][ARM] Added support for krait cpu

[Evan Cheng]

On Dec 3, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Ana Pazos <apazos at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> Hello reviewers,
>  
> These patches add support for krait cpu in Clang and LLVM.
>  
> Notes:
> -        Krait processor currently modeled as cortex-a9 and reuses the same instruction itineraries.
> -        Krait additionally has VFP4 (fused multiply add/sub) and hardware division features enabled.

The patch for this looks fine to me.

> -        Krait cpu is not recognized by the GNU assembler, so it is replaced with march=armv7-a to avoid a lower march from being used.

Is this a temporary workaround? Would gas be able to assembly VFP4 instructions?

Evan

>  
> Let me know what you think.
>  
> Thanks,
> Ana.
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