Based on patch by Mike Frysinger, 20 Jun 2006

Modifications are based on the linux kernel approach and
support two use cases:

  1) Add O= to the make command line
  'make O=/tmp/build all'

  2) Set environement variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location
  'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
  'make'

The second approach can also be used with a MAKEALL script
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'./MAKEALL'

Command line 'O=' setting overrides BUILD_DIR environent variable.

When none of the above methods is used the local build is performed and
the object files are placed in the source directory.

Pointed out by Gerhard Jaeger, 31 Aug 2005;
cf. http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-08/msg00412.html

now handling all 4xx cpu's.
Patch by Stefan Roese, 16 Aug 2005

* Adjust MIPS compiler options at run-time depending on tools version
  ("-march=4kc -mtune=4kc -Wa,-mips_allow_branch_to_undefined" for new,
  "-mcpu=4kc" for old tools)

  before we can access it; add delay in case we are faster (with no
  CF card inserted)

* Cleanup of some init functions

* Make sure SCC Ethernet is always stopped by the time we boot Linux
  to avoid Linux crashes by early packets coming in.

* Accelerate flash accesses on LWMON board by using buffered writes

  - remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc.
  - split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c)

* Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003:
  - major rework of command structure
    (work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)