Added 2 notes

1) Skylake and KNL support for X86
2) masked intrinsics load/store/gather/scatter

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18353

llvm-svn: 264703

diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 982ade9..14fc126 100644 (file)
--- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
 
    Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
 
+Changes to the LLVM IR
+----------------------
+
+* New intrinsics ``llvm.masked.load``, ``llvm.masked.store``,
+  ``llvm.masked.gather`` and ``llvm.masked.scatter`` were introduced to the
+  LLVM IR to allow selective memory access for vector data types.
+
 Changes to the ARM Backend
 --------------------------
 
@@ -90,9 +97,15 @@ Changes to the PowerPC Target
 
 
 Changes to the X86 Target
------------------------------
+-------------------------
 
- During this release ...
+* LLVM now supports the Intel CPU codenamed Skylake Server with AVX-512
+  extensions using ``-march=skylake-avx512``. The switch enables the
+  ISA extensions AVX-512{F, CD, VL, BW, DQ}.
+
+* LLVM now supports the Intel CPU codenamed Knights Landing with AVX-512
+  extensions using ``-march=knl``. The switch enables the ISA extensions
+  AVX-512{F, CD, ER, PF}.
 
 Changes to the AMDGPU Target
 -----------------------------