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authordanh-arm <dan.handley@arm.com>2016-02-18 18:34:33 +0000
committerdanh-arm <dan.handley@arm.com>2016-02-18 18:34:33 +0000
commit84d1099f31a671f91c62335ffe0085e68916abd1 (patch)
tree0726f38b7e2fea5fc9fd4db0af7673ca9557e087
parentf8e6eddb443bf6a3f260da5190d680f6ba724358 (diff)
parentd1b2b203a7b98ed69a035e4a096f7ea413009e04 (diff)
Merge pull request #529 from sandrine-bailleux/sb/a57-sw-optim-ref
Cortex-A57: Add link to software optimization guide
-rw-r--r--docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md6
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diff --git a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md
index e7185aa4..c57dc7ee 100644
--- a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md
+++ b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md
@@ -85,8 +85,12 @@ architecture that can be enabled by the platform as desired.
* `A57_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT`: This flag has the same behaviour as
`A53_DISABLE_NON_TEMPORAL_HINT` but for Cortex-A57. This needs to be
- enabled only for revisions <= r1p2 of the CPU and is enabled by default.
+ enabled only for revisions <= r1p2 of the CPU and is enabled by default,
+ as recommended in section "4.7 Non-Temporal Loads/Stores" of the
+ [Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide][A57 SW Optimization Guide].
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
_Copyright (c) 2014-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved._
+
+[A57 SW Optimization Guide]: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015b/Cortex_A57_Software_Optimization_Guide_external.pdf