the following patch was just integrated into master: commit c505837e67aa4fb89964c849d905fa8d44459152 Author: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Date: Tue Oct 15 17:36:17 2013 -0700
arm: Have the linker garbage-collect unused functions and variables
This patch activates -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections for the compiler and --gc-sections for the linker. This will strip out all unused functions and static/global variables from the final binaries and reduce the amount of data we need to read over SPI.
A quick test with ToT images shows a 2.5k (13%) / 10k (29%) / 12k (28%) reduction on Nyan and 3k (38%) / 23k (50%) / 13k (29%) on Pit, respectively for bootblock / romstage / ramstage.
Change-Id: I052411d4ad190d0395921ac4d4677341fb91568a Signed-off-by: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/177111 (cherry picked from commit 5635b138778dea67a5f179e13003132be07f7e59) Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen isaac.christensen@se-eng.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6904 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/6904 for details.
-gerrit