diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 80dce667f7..f216b8498c 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-02-04  Matthew Wahab  <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
+
+	* config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_cpus): Add support for Cortex-A72.
+	* doc/c-aarch64.texi (-mcpu=): Add "cortex-a72".
+
 2015-02-04  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	* config/rl78-parse.y (addsubw): Fix encoding of [HL] variant of
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
index b495331b94..25ae8c370d 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
@@ -7231,6 +7231,8 @@ static const struct aarch64_cpu_option_table aarch64_cpus[] = {
 				 AARCH64_FEATURE_CRC), "Cortex-A53"},
   {"cortex-a57", AARCH64_FEATURE(AARCH64_ARCH_V8,
 				 AARCH64_FEATURE_CRC), "Cortex-A57"},
+  {"cortex-a72", AARCH64_FEATURE (AARCH64_ARCH_V8,
+				  AARCH64_FEATURE_CRC), "Cortex-A72"},
   {"thunderx", AARCH64_ARCH_V8, "Cavium ThunderX"},
   /* The 'xgene-1' name is an older name for 'xgene1', which was used
      in earlier releases and is superseded by 'xgene1' in all
diff --git a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
index 508dd116a6..ce3694ac44 100644
--- a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ message if an attempt is made to assemble an instruction which will not execute
 on the target processor.  The following processor names are recognized:
 @code{cortex-a53},
 @code{cortex-a57},
+@code{cortex-a72},
 @code{thunderx},
 @code{xgene1}
 and