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:
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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>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
index 68ac57d..f36d823 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
@@ -28,5 +28,6 @@
# -mspe=yes is needed to have -mno-spe accepted by a buggy GCC;
# see "[PATCH,rs6000] make -mno-spe work as expected" on
# http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg00311.html
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mspe=yes)
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS +=$(call cc-option,-mno-spe)
+PF_CPPFLAGS_SPE := $(call cc-option,-mspe=yes) \
+ $(call cc-option,-mno-spe)
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += $(PF_CPPFLAGS_SPE)