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>
all arm boards except a few use the same cpu linker script
so move it to cpu/$(CPU)
that could be overwrite in following order
SOC
BOARD
via the corresponding config.mk
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
lowlevel_init.S is not used any more so remove it.
As consequence, we also don't have to generate u-boot.lds
but can use a static version as before.
This also fixes the out-of-tree build problem introduced
with commit f0a2c7b4 "at91: add support for the PM9263 board"
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
The PM9263 board is based on the AT91SAM9263-EK board.
Here is the page on Ronetix website:
http://www.ronetix.at/starter_kit_9263.html
Signed-off-by: Ilko Iliev <iliev@ronetix.at>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Currently the arm926ejs tree has the armv4 option set during compilation.
This flag does not belong here because a arm926 CPU is always a armv5 CPU.
Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>
All the AT91CAP9/AT91SAM9 boards have the same linker script. The patch
below avoids the duplication of u-boot.lds by putting the file in the
cpu directory instead of the board one.
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
AT91CAP9 and AT91SAM9 SoCs are very close hardware wise, so a
common infrastructure can be used. Let this infrastructure be
named after the AT91SAM9 family, and move the existing AT91CAP9
files to the new place.
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Wolfgang Denk
Peter Tyser
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Ilko Iliev
Remy Bohmer
Stelian Pop
Stelian Pop