Follow the discussion of Charles Manning and Mike Frysinger.
Using gc_sections helps reduce image size.
Configuring for nios2-generic board...
Before,
text data bss dec hex filename
123979 3724 22892 150595 24c43 /tmp/u-boot/u-boot
After,
text data bss dec hex filename
115983 3800 22732 142515 22cb3 /tmp/u-boot/u-boot
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Scott McNutt <smcnutt@psyent.com>
This patch allows users to override default STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR.
The gcclibdir path was duplicated in the standalone Makefile and
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Scott McNutt <smcnutt@psyent.com>
The "-ffixed-r15" option doesn't work well for gcc4. Since we
don't use gp for small data with option "-G0", we can use gp
as global data pointer. This allows compiler to use r15. It
is necessary for gcc4 to work properly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Scott McNutt <smcnutt@psyent.com>
This patch allow boards to override the default link script.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Scott McNutt <smcnutt@psyent.com>
Also move lib_$ARCH/config.mk to arch/$ARCH/config.mk
This change is intended to clean up the top-level directory structure
and more closely mimic Linux's directory organization.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Thomas Chou