Reduce build times

U-Boot Makefiles contain a number of tests for compiler features etc.
which so far are executed again and again. On some architectures
(especially ARM) this results in a large nu

Reduce build times

U-Boot Makefiles contain a number of tests for compiler features etc.
which so far are executed again and again. On some architectures
(especially ARM) this results in a large number of calls to gcc.

This patch makes sure to run such tests only once, thus largely
reducing the number of "execve" system calls.

Example: number of "execve" system calls for building the "P2020DS"
(Power Architecture) and "qong" (ARM) boards, measured as:
-> strace -f -e trace=execve -o /tmp/foo ./MAKEALL <board>
-> grep execve /tmp/foo | wc -l

Before: After: Reduction:
==================================
P2020DS 20555 15205 -26%
qong 31692 14490 -54%

As a result, built times are significantly reduced, typically by
30...50%.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@gmail.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
cc: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Weisser <weisserm@arcor.de>
Tested-by: Sanjeev Premi <premi@ti.com>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

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nds32: standalone support

Add standalone program related support for nds32 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@andestech.com>

examples: api: allow build with private libgcc

The examples/api is not configured with USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC. This makes
building examples/api break on certain boards that do not/cannot use the
public

examples: api: allow build with private libgcc

The examples/api is not configured with USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC. This makes
building examples/api break on certain boards that do not/cannot use the
public libgcc.

Nevertheless, this patch has to also touch the top-level Makefile to fix
this problem because the current top-level Makefile does not specify
libgcc as a prerequisite of examples/api, and explicitly builds
examples/api _before_ libgcc.

For testing this patch, I added the following to configs/seaboard.h and
ran demo.bin on a Seaboard.

+#define CONFIG_API
+#define CONFIG_SYS_MMC_MAX_DEVICE 2
+#define CONFIG_CMD_NET
+#define CONFIG_NET_MULTI

Signed-off-by: Che-Liang Chiou <clchiou@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

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Replace space and tab checks with isblank

These are various places I found that checked for conditions equivalent
to isblank.

Signed-off-by: Jason Hobbs <jason.hobbs@calxeda.com>

Fix a few gcc warnings.

Noticed while building all of mpc8xx. Also
constify usage string in timer.c
Warnings fixed are:
timer.c: In function 'timer':
timer.c:189: warning: format not a string litera

Fix a few gcc warnings.

Noticed while building all of mpc8xx. Also
constify usage string in timer.c
Warnings fixed are:
timer.c: In function 'timer':
timer.c:189: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
timer.c:258: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
atm.c: In function 'atmUnload':
atm.c:99: warning: array subscript is above array bounds
atm.c: In function 'atmLoad':
atm.c:65: warning: array subscript is above array bounds
codec.c: In function 'codsp_write_pop_int':
codec.c:678: warning: array subscript is above array bounds
codec.c: In function 'codsp_write_cop_short':
codec.c:585: warning: array subscript is above array bounds
codec.c: In function 'codsp_write_sop_int':
codec.c:512: warning: array subscript is above array bounds

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>

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Fix variable flavor in examples/standalone/Makefile

GNU Makefile have two flavors of variables, recursively expanded that is
defined by using '=', and simply expanded that is defined by using ':='.

Fix variable flavor in examples/standalone/Makefile

GNU Makefile have two flavors of variables, recursively expanded that is
defined by using '=', and simply expanded that is defined by using ':='.

The bug is caused by using recursively expanded flavor for BIN and SREC.
As you can see below, they are prepended by $(obj) twice.

We can reproduce this bug with a simplified version of this Makefile:
$ cat >Makefile <<\EOF
obj := /path/to/obj/
ELF := hello_world

BIN_rec = $(addsuffix .bin,$(ELF)) # recursively expanded
BIN_sim := $(addsuffix .bin,$(ELF)) # simply expanded

ELF := $(addprefix $(obj),$(ELF))
BIN_rec := $(addprefix $(obj),$(BIN_rec))
BIN_sim := $(addprefix $(obj),$(BIN_sim))

show:
@echo BIN_rec=$(BIN_rec)
@echo BIN_sim=$(BIN_sim)

.PHONY: show
EOF
$ make show
BIN_rec=/path/to/obj//path/to/obj/hello_world.bin
BIN_sim=/path/to/obj/hello_world.bin

Signed-off-by: Che-Liang Chiou <clchiou@chromium.org>

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MIPS: Introduce --gc-sections for MIPS

All architectures but MIPS are using --gc-sections on final linking.
This patch introduces that feature for MIPS to reduce the memory and
flash footprint.

Sig

MIPS: Introduce --gc-sections for MIPS

All architectures but MIPS are using --gc-sections on final linking.
This patch introduces that feature for MIPS to reduce the memory and
flash footprint.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Thomas Lange <thomas@corelatus.se>
Cc: Vlad Lungu <vlad.lungu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@pobox.com>

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x86: Rename i386 to x86

Signed-off-by: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>

Make STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR configurable per board

Rename STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR into CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
and allow that the architecture-specific default value gets
overwritten by defining the

Make STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR configurable per board

Rename STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR into CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
and allow that the architecture-specific default value gets
overwritten by defining the value in the board header file.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@ruby.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Cc: Tsi Chung Liew <tsi-chung.liew@freescale.com>
Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>

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