[U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: Introduce --gc-sections for MIPS

[Shinya Kuribayashi]

On 04/16/2011 12:16 AM, daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com wrote:
> All architectures but MIPS are using --gc-sections on final linking.
> This patch introduces that feature for MIPS to reduce the memory and
> flash footprint.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com>
> Cc: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay at pobox.com>
> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Thomas Lange <thomas at corelatus.se>
> Cc: Vlad Lungu <vlad.lungu at windriver.com>
> ---
> Tested with ELDK-4.1 and self-built gcc-4.3.3/binutils-2.19.1 on my
> boards. I could not test the other boards so I would appreciate it if
> the maintainers in CC could do a quick test on their boards.
> 
>  arch/mips/config.mk           |    2 ++
>  board/dbau1x00/u-boot.lds     |   10 +++++-----
>  board/gth2/u-boot.lds         |   10 +++++-----
>  board/incaip/u-boot.lds       |   10 +++++-----
>  board/micronas/vct/u-boot.lds |   10 +++++-----
>  board/pb1x00/u-boot.lds       |   10 +++++-----
>  board/qemu-mips/u-boot.lds    |   10 +++++-----
>  board/tb0229/u-boot.lds       |   10 +++++-----
>  examples/standalone/mips.lds  |   10 +++++-----
>  9 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

Basically, changes made look good.  I'm going to apply after a couple
of weeks (or a month) of interval, even without reports from the
maintainers.  As the patch has been proposed in the last minutes during
the merge window, we'll make it in the v2011.06 release, thanks.