Current timer routines (arch/mips/lib/timer.c) are implemented assuming
that MIPS32 coprocessor (CP0) resources, Counter and Compare registers
in this case, are available. But this doesn't always work.
We need to make sure that all MIPS-based systems don't necessarily use
CP0 counter/compare registers as time keeping resources. And some MIPS
variant processors might come with different hardware specs with genuine
MIPS32 CP0 registers.
With this change, each $(CPU)/ directory can have its own timer code.
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@pobox.com>
Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils. As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".
This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.
The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o". This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.
This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols. Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier <sebastien.carlier@gmail.com>
Also move lib_$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>
