[PATCH] ARM: zImage: Skip relinking if nothing changes

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> >> index 0c74a6f..937fd26 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> >> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) = lzma
> >>
> >>  targets       := vmlinux vmlinux.lds \
> >>                 piggy.$(suffix_y) piggy.$(suffix_y).o \
> >> -                font.o font.c head.o misc.o $(OBJS)
> >> +                font.o font.c head.o misc.o lib1funcs.o lib1funcs.S $(OBJS)
> >>
> >>  # Make sure files are removed during clean
> >>  extra-y       += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma lib1funcs.S
> >> @@ -121,9 +121,7 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -X
> >>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -T
> >>
> >>  # For __aeabi_uidivmod
> >> -lib1funcs = $(obj)/lib1funcs.o
> >> -
> >> -$(obj)/lib1funcs.S: $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/lib1funcs.S FORCE
> >> +$(obj)/lib1funcs.S: $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/lib1funcs.S
> >>        $(call cmd,shipped)
> >>
> > You should be able to avoid the extra copy altogether by doing something ala:
> >
> > $(obj)/lib1funcs.o: $(srctree)/arch/arm/lib/lib1funcs.S
> >        $(call cmd,as_o_S)
> >
> > note that I also remove the $(SRCARCH), as there is no other
> > `arch/*/lib/lib1funcs.S' than `arch/arm/lib/lib1funcs.S'
> >
> I withdraw this proposal and will hack around this to find a proper
> solution from within kbuild, and eventually come back on these uses
> :-)

Any progress on this?

I have a patch doing multiple similar $(call cmd,shipped) at the moment 
and this is far from looking nice.


Nicolas