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* ARM: start.S: fix typoYuichiro Goto2016-02-29-1/+1
| | | | | | Fix typo in comment about position of 'A' bit in several start.S. Signed-off-by: Yuichiro Goto <goto.yuichiro@espark.co.jp>
* arm1136/arm1176: Merge cache handling codeAlexander Stein2015-08-12-52/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | As both cores are similar merge the cache handling code for both CPUs to arm11 directory. Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexanders83@web.de> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> [trini: Add hunk to arch/arm/cpu/arm1136/Makefile] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
* Merge branch 'u-boot/master'Albert ARIBAUD2015-04-10-311/+0
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| * ARM: bcm283x: merge BCM2835/BCM2836 directories into mach-bcm283xMasahiro Yamada2015-03-28-311/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BCM2835 (used on Raspberry Pi) and BCM2836 (used on Raspberry Pi 2) are similar enough. One of the biggest differences is the ARM processor. It is reasonable to collect the source files into a single place, arch/arm/mach-bcm283x/. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* | ARM: move -march=* and -mtune= options to arch/arm/MakefileMasahiro Yamada2015-03-27-9/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My main motivations for this commit are: [1] Follow the arch/arm/Makefile style of Linux Kernel [2] Maintain compiler options systematically Currently, we give -march=* and -mtune=* options inconsistently: Only some of the CPUs pass -march=* and -mtune=* options. By collecting such options into the single place arch/arm/Makefile we can tell which options are missing at a glance. [3] Prepare for deprecating arch/*/cpu/*/config.mk Note: This commit just moves the compiler options so as not to change the behavior at all. It does not care about the correctness of the given options. Fox example, "-march=armv5te" might be better than "-march=armv4" for ARM946EJS, but it is beyond the scope this commit. Also, filling the missing -march=* and -tune=* is left to follow-up patches. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
* remove unnecessary version.h includesRob Herring2015-03-24-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various files are needlessly rebuilt every time due to the version and build time changing. As version.h is not actually needed, remove the include. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> Cc: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Tom Warren <twarren@nvidia.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@andestech.com> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Cc: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@yahoo.fr> Cc: Eric Jarrige <eric.jarrige@armadeus.org> Cc: "David Müller" <d.mueller@elsoft.ch> Cc: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com> Cc: Robert Baldyga <r.baldyga@samsung.com> Cc: Torsten Koschorrek <koschorrek@synertronixx.de> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Łukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
* ARM: remove tnetv107x board supportMasahiro Yamada2015-02-24-983/+0
| | | | | | | | This is still a non-generic board. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Chan-Taek Park <c-park@ti.com> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
* kconfig: remove unneeded dependency on !SPL_BUILDMasahiro Yamada2015-02-24-3/+3
| | | | | | | Now CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is not defined in Kconfig, so "!depends on SPL_BUILD" and "if !SPL_BUILD" are redundant. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* rpi: add support for Raspberry Pi 2 model BStephen Warren2015-02-21-1/+1
| | | | | | | | USB doesn't seem to work yet; the controller detects the on-board Hub/ Ethernet device but can't read the descriptors from it. I haven't investigated yet. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* bcm2835/rpi: add SPDX license tags for some filesStephen Warren2015-02-21-10/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* dm: Move Raspberry Pi driver model CONFIGs to KconfigSimon Glass2015-02-12-0/+12
| | | | | | | Remove driver model CONFIGs from the board config header and use Kconfig instead. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
* kbuild: use SoC-specific CONFIG to descend into SoC directoryMasahiro Yamada2014-11-23-1/+2
| | | | | | Use "obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo/" where it is possible. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* kbuild: Descend into SOC directory from CPU directoryMasahiro Yamada2014-11-23-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Some CPUs of some architectures have SOC directories. At present, the build system directly descends into SOC directories from the top Makefile, but it should generally descend into each directory from its parent directory. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* linux/kernel.h: sync min, max, min3, max3 macros with LinuxMasahiro Yamada2014-11-23-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | U-Boot has never cared about the type when we get max/min of two values, but Linux Kernel does. This commit gets min, max, min3, max3 macros synced with the kernel introducing type checks. Many of references of those macros must be fixed to suppress warnings. We have two options: - Use min, max, min3, max3 only when the arguments have the same type (or add casts to the arguments) - Use min_t/max_t instead with the appropriate type for the first argument Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> Tested-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> [trini: Fixup arch/blackfin/lib/string.c] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
* cosmetic: replace MIN, MAX with min, maxMasahiro Yamada2014-09-24-1/+1
| | | | | | | The macro MIN, MAX is defined as the aliase of min, max, respectively. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* arm: move exception handling out of start.S filesAlbert ARIBAUD2014-05-15-195/+1
| | | | | | | | Exception handling is basically identical for all ARM targets. Factorize it out of the various start.S files and into a single vectors.S file, and adjust linker scripts accordingly. Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
* arm: remove unused _end_vect and _vectors_end symbolsAlbert ARIBAUD2014-05-15-2/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
* arm: remove unneeded symbol offsets and _TEXT_BASEAlbert ARIBAUD2014-02-26-27/+0
| | | | | | | | Remove the last uses of symbol offsets in ARM U-Boot. Remove some needless uses of _TEXT_BASE. Remove all _TEXT_BASE definitions. Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
* ARM: bcm2835: config.mk isn't neededStephen Warren2014-02-13-19/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The entries in config.mk were needed so that U-Boot could be built with an old version of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's toolchain. Without them, the build would error out with: ...-ld: error: .../libgcc.a(_bswapsi2.o) uses VFP register arguments, u-boot does not However, none of the 3 toolchains in the latest version of their tools.git, nor the Ubuntu/Linaro ARM compilers in at least Ubuntu Quantal or Saucy, need these options set in order to compile a working U-Boot. Hence, remove the options for simplicity. Reported-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
* ARM: merge commonly-defined PLATFORM_RELFLAGSMasahiro Yamada2014-01-24-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this commit, all arch/arm/cpu/${CPU}/config.mk except ARMv8 had the same option: $(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,)) This commit moves it into arch/arm/config.mk. If the compiler does not support the option, it is ignored by $(call cc-option,...). So this commit gives no harm to ARMv8. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* lib: time: add weak timer_init() functionDarwin Rambo2014-01-24-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | If timer_init() is made a weak stub function, then it allows us to remove several empty timer_init functions for those boards that already have a timer initialized when u-boot starts. Architectures that use the timer framework may also remove the need for timer.c. Signed-off-by: Darwin Rambo <drambo@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@linaro.org>
* ARM: bcm2835: fix mailbox timeoutStephen Warren2014-01-20-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | My original intention was to have a 100ms timeout. However, the timer operations used return values in ms not us, so we ended up with a 100s timeout instead. Fixing this exposes that some operations need longer to operate than 100ms, so bump the timeout up to a whole second. Reported-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* ARM: convert makefiles to Kbuild styleMasahiro Yamada2013-10-31-72/+6
| | | | Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* ARM: refactor compiler options in config.mkMasahiro Yamada2013-09-23-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Every ARM cpu config.mk (arch/arm/cpu/{CPUDIR}/config.mk) defines: PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-common -ffixed-r8 -msoft-float So, this patch moves the common compiler options to arch/arm/config.mk. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
* Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX-License-Identifier to source filesWolfgang Denk2013-07-24-192/+12
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> [trini: Fixup common/cmd_io.c] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
* arm: factorize relocate_code routineAlbert ARIBAUD2013-05-30-76/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Replace all relocate_code routines from ARM start.S files with a single instance in file arch/arm/lib/relocate.S. For PXA, this requires moving the dcache unlocking code from within relocate_code into c_runtime_cpu_setup. Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
* arm: do not compile relocate_code() for SPL buildsAlbert ARIBAUD2013-05-30-6/+5
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
* BUGFIX: arm: data abort in get_bad_stack_swiTetsuyuki Kobayashi2013-04-13-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When swi instruction is executed, it is expected to get message "software interrupt" in console and dump registers and reboot, as do_software_interrupt() in arch/arm/lib/interrupts.c. But, actually it causes data abort accessing wrong address in get_bad_stack_swi macro in arch/arm/cpu/v7/start.S. This patch fixes this problem. The same mistake in arch/arm/cpu/{arm1136,arm1176,pxa}/start.S. Signed-off-by: Tetsuyuki Kobayashi <koba@kmckk.co.jp>
* arm1176: Remove unused MMU setup from start.SBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-90/+1
| | | | | | | | | Following the removal of the smdk6400 board, the MMU setup code in arm1176/start.S becomes unused, so remove it. It will still be possible to restore it later from the Git history if necessary, in which case it should be moved out of the relocate_code() function. Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: Remove deprecated and now unused NAND SPLBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-8/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: Remove support for unused s3c64xxBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-584/+0
| | | | | | | | Following the removal of the smdk6400 board, the s3c64xx SoC becomes unused, so remove associated code. It will still be possible to restore it later from the Git history if necessary. Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: Remove unused relocate_code() parametersBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-4/+2
| | | | | | | | Commit e05e5de7fae5bec79617e113916dac6631251156 made the 2 1st parameters of ARM's relocate_code() useless since it moved the code handling them to crt0.S. So, drop these parameters. Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: relocate_code(): Use __image_copy_end for end of relocationBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | Use __image_copy_end instead of __bss_start for the end of the image to relocate. This is the same as commit 033ca72, but applied to all ARM start.S. This is a more appropriate symbol naming for an image copy & relocate feature, and this also saves a useless copy of data put between __image_copy_end and __bss_start in linker scripts (e.g. relocation information, or MMU initialization tables used only before jumping to the relocated image). Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: relocate_code(): Remove useless relocation offset computationBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-5/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: relocate_code() is no longer noreturnBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Commit e05e5de7fae5bec79617e113916dac6631251156 made ARM's relocate_code() return to its caller, but it did not update its declaration accordingly. Fixing this function declaration fixes dropped C code following calls to relocate_code(). Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
* arm: start.S: Fix _TEXT_BASE for SPLBenoît Thébaudeau2013-04-12-0/+8
| | | | | | | | _TEXT_BASE must be set to CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE for generic SPL, and to CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE for non-SPL builds. Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
* ARM: bcm2835: fix get_timer() to return msStephen Warren2013-04-04-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | Apparently, CONFIG_SYS_HZ must be 1000. Change this, and fix the timer driver to conform to this. Have the timer implementation export a custom API get_timer_us() for use by the BCM2835 MMC API, which needs us resolution for a HW workaround. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* ARM: bcm2835: add mailbox driverStephen Warren2013-03-20-1/+165
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The BCM2835 SoC contains (at least) two CPUs; the VideoCore (a/k/a "GPU") and the ARM CPU. The ARM CPU is often thought of as the main CPU. However, the VideoCore actually controls the initial SoC boot, and hides much of the hardware behind a protocol. This protocol is transported using the SoC's mailbox hardware module. Here, we add a very simplistic driver for the mailbox module, and define a few structures for the property messages. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* Replace __bss_end__ with __bss_endSimon Glass2013-03-15-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Note this is a tree-wide change affecting multiple architectures. At present we use __bss_start, but mostly __bss_end__. This seems inconsistent and in a number of places __bss_end is used instead. Change to use __bss_end for the BSS end symbol throughout U-Boot. This makes it possible to use the asm-generic/sections.h file on all archs. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
* arm: move C runtime setup code in crt0.SAlbert ARIBAUD2013-01-08-53/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move all the C runtime setup code from every start.S in arch/arm into arch/arm/lib/crt0.S. This covers the code sequence from setting up the initial stack to calling into board_init_r(). Also, rewrite the C runtime setup and make functions board_init_*() and relocate_code() behave according to normal C semantics (no jumping across the C stack any more, etc). Some SPL targets had to be touched because they use start.S explicitly or for some reason; the relevant maintainers and custodians are cc:ed. Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
* ARM: arm1176: Define arch_cpu_init() for s3c64xxAshok Kumar Reddy2012-11-15-1/+27
| | | | | | | | arch_cpu_init() is removed from cpu level to SOC level for arm1176 in commit 4ea6d6b,the same is done for s3c64xx Signed-off-by: Ashok Kumar Reddy <ashokkourla2000@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
* include/linux/byteorder: import latest endian definitions from linuxKim Phillips2012-11-04-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | u-boot's byteorder headers did not contain endianness attributions for use with sparse, causing a lot of false positives. Import the kernel's latest definitions, and enable them by including compiler.h and types.h. They come with 'const' added for some swab functions, so fix those up, too: include/linux/byteorder/big_endian.h:46:2: warning: passing argument 1 of '__swab64p' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default] Also, note: u-boot's historic __BYTE_ORDER definition has been preserved (for the time being at least). We also remove ad-hoc barrier() definitions, since we're including compiler.h in files that hadn't in the past: macb.c:54:0: warning: "barrier" redefined [enabled by default] In addition, including compiler.h in byteorder changes the 'noinline' definition to expand to __attribute__((noinline)). This fixes arch/powerpc/lib/bootm.c: bootm.c:329:16: error: attribute '__attribute__': unknown attribute bootm.c:329:16: error: expected ')' before '__attribute__' bootm.c:329:25: error: expected identifier or '(' before ')' token powerpc sparse builds yield: include/common.h:356:22: error: marked inline, but without a definition the unknown-reason inlining without a definition is considered obsolete given it was part of the 2002 initial commit, and no arm version was 'fixed.' also fixed: ydirectenv.h:60:0: warning: "inline" redefined [enabled by default] and: Configuring for devconcenter - Board: intip, Options: DEVCONCENTER make[1]: *** [4xx_ibm_ddr2_autocalib.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/libppc4xx.o] Error 2 powerpc-fsl-linux-size: './u-boot': No such file 4xx_ibm_ddr2_autocalib.c: In function 'DQS_autocalibration': include/asm/ppc4xx-sdram.h:1407:13: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'ppc4xx_ibm_ddr2_register_dump': function body not available 4xx_ibm_ddr2_autocalib.c:1243:32: sorry, unimplemented: called from here and: In file included from crc32.c:50:0: crc32table.h:4:1: warning: implicit declaration of function '___constant_swab32' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] crc32table.h:4:1: error: initializer element is not constant crc32table.h:4:1: error: (near initialization for 'crc32table_le[0]') Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> [trini: Remove '#endif' in include/common.h around setenv portion] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
* dm: wdt: arm: Move tnetv107x into drivers/watchdog/Marek Vasut2012-10-18-181/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Oliver Brown <obrown@adventnetworks.com> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> Cc: U-Boot DM <u-boot-dm@lists.denx.de>
* arm: Fixed the offset for the no relocation.Zhong Hongbo2012-10-04-0/+1
| | | | | | | | When the u-boot address of destination equal to __start, no relocation. relocation offset(r9) = 0. Signed-off-by: Zhong Hongbo <bocui107@gmail.com> Tested-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
* ARM: arm1176: Define arch_cpu_init() at the SoC levelStephen Warren2012-09-25-8/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 86c6326 "ARM: arm1176: enable instruction cache in arch_cpu_init()" defined arch_cpu_init() in a file that is shared across all arm1176 SoCs. tnetv107x already implemented this function, which caused linking to break. Move the new conflicting arch_cpu_init() into arm1176/bcm2835/init.c so that it doesn't conflict; grep indicates this function is usually defined at the SoC-level, not the CPU-level, at least for ARM. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
* ARM: add basic support for the Broadcom BCM2835 SoCStephen Warren2012-09-01-0/+165
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This SoC is used in the Raspberry Pi, for example. For more details, see: http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835 http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf. Initial support is enough to boot to a serial console, execute a minimal set of U-Boot commands, download data over a serial port, and boot a Linux kernel. No storage or network drivers are implemented. GPIO driver originally by Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> with many fixes from myself. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* ARM: arm1176: enable instruction cache in arch_cpu_init()Stephen Warren2012-09-01-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | Note that this affects all users of the ARM1176 CPU that enable CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_INIT, not just the BCM2835 SoC, potentially such as tnetv107x. Cc: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
* arm: Fix to mistake clean the memory spaceZhong Hongbo2012-07-20-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | In currently, when __bss_start is equal to __bss_end__, The bss loop will clear all the things in memory space. But just only when __bss_end__ greater than __bss_start__, we do the clear bss section operation. Signed-off-by: Zhong Hongbo <bocui107@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
* arm: Use common .lds file where possibleSimon Glass2012-03-30-78/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Each cpu directory currently has its own .lds file. This is only needed in most cases because the start.o file is in a different subdir. Now that we can factor out this difference, we can move most cpus over to the common .lds file. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
* Reduce build timesWolfgang Denk2011-11-03-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>