This patch upstreams support for the Arm-v8 Cortex-A77
processor for AArch64 and ARM.
In detail:
- Adding cortex-a77 as a cpu option for aarch64 and arm targets in clang
- Cortex-A77 CPU name and ProcessorModel in llvm
details of the CPU can be found here:
https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/cortex-a/cortex-a77
and a similar submission to GCC can be found here:
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/e0664b7a63ed8305e9f8539309df7fb3eb13babe
The following people contributed to this patch:
- Luke Geeson
- Mikhail Maltsev
Can you move this test up to next to the other cpus.