Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils.  As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".

This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.

The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o".  This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.

This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols.  Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier <sebastien.carlier@gmail.com>

After the recent cleanups, a number of config.mk files consist only of
a "PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(TOPDIR)/board" entry whih is not needed.
Remove such entries.  In most cases, that means that the whole
config.mk file can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>

Clean up Makefile, and drop a lot of the config.mk files on the way.

We now also automatically pick all boards that are listed in
boards.cfg (and with all configurations), so we can drop the redundant
entries from MAKEALL to avoid building these twice.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>

The change is currently needed to be able to remove the board
configuration scripting from the top level Makefile and replace it by
a simple, table driven script.

Moving this configuration setting into the "CONFIG_*" name space is
also desirable because it is needed if we ever should move forward to
a Kconfig driven configuration system.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>

- Revives POST for blackfin arch;
- Removes redundant code:
     arch/blackfin/lib/post.c
     arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/commproc.c
     arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc512x/common.c
- fixes up the post_word_{load|store} usage.

Signed-off-by: Michael Zaidman <michael.zaidman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Tested-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>

List of the maintainers of the affected by patch boards:
Cc: Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
Cc: Denis Peter <d.peter@mpl.ch>
Cc: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@netstal.com>
Cc: Larry Johnson <lrj@acm.org>
Cc: Feng Kan <fkan@amcc.com>

The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands.  Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".

This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
/* ====> */	while (*++*argv) {
			switch (**argv) {
			case 'd':
				debug++;
				break;
			...
			default:
				usage ();
			}
		}
	}
	...
}

The line marked "====>" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell.  With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
	error: increment of read-only location '*argv'

N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:

	while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
		char *arg = *argv;
		while (*++arg) {
			switch (*arg) {
			...

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

We do not support a processor that never reached a real customer.

Signed-off-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>

Many of the help messages were not really helpful; for example, many
commands that take no arguments would not print a correct synopsis
line, but "No additional help available." which is not exactly wrong,
but not helpful either.

Commit ``Make "usage" messages more helpful.'' changed this
partially. But it also became clear that lots of "Usage" and "Help"
messages (fields "usage" and "help" in struct cmd_tbl_s respective)
were actually redundant.

This patch cleans this up - for example:

Before:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt         - Read temperature from digital thermometer and thermostat.

After:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Read temperature from Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>

Remove command name from all command "usage" fields and update
common/command.c to display "name - usage" instead of
just "usage". Also remove newlines from command usage fields.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>