[coreboot] [PATCH]Include headers instead of sources in romstage, part 1/many

[Patrick Georgi]

Am 08.05.2010 17:56, schrieb Kevin O'Connor:
> I think coreboot should try to avoid using .a files.
> 
> The latest version of gcc (v4.5) contains the -flto feature.  This can
> provide significant benefits to coreboot code generation because it
> allows the entire romstage (and ramstage) to be analyzed as a whole.
> The resulting binaries are significantly smaller because unused code
> can be eliminated and more functions can be inlined.  Unfortunately,
> the standard linker can't handle -flto with .a files.
Our build system is advanced enough that this can be an option based on
compiler version.

Thanks for the notice, but I guess we should support non-lto builds
until gcc4.5 is the lowest common denominator, or even better the next
version, so we can assume that bugs are fixed.


Patrick