[coreboot] Using only one romcc copy

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Mats Erik,

I'm sorry that I don't know the exact convention for writing your first
name. Do you prefer to be called Mats Erik or just Mats?

On 02.09.2008 22:13, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> I did one round of timing the build processes:
>
> Original make command:                      0m42.323s
> My reduction and a clean start:             0m30.955s
> After that a 'make clean' and renewed make: 0m23.081s
>
> The timings might not be typical, but the time saving seems
> to be substantial in the 'middle case' where only one romcc
> needs to be built, as well as in the last case were romcc
> is fully reused for both rom-images.
>   

I measured an abuild run and the time savings on my machine are between
0% and 30% (average 12%), so there is no downside if you look at it from
a compile time standpoint.
Your work is really helpful for anybody working on v2 and I took your
suggestion to fix the make rules at the source.

> Since I only have used coreboot-v2, I have no knowledge
> whether my utility could be applied also to coreboot-v3.
>   

Fortunately v3 uses only the system gcc, so this doesn't apply.

This patch is the equivalent of running Mats' reduce.sh before every
compilation. Thanks to him for the initial idea and realization.

The only thing left out is the make rule for cleaning the romcc binary
shared between each fallback/normal image. That change should be
discussed separately.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Patch attached because it is >100k.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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http://www.hailfinger.org/

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