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.

Patch by Andrew Dyer, October 10, 2005
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dyer <amdyer@gmail.com>

Patch by Andrew Dyer, 08 Feb 2005

  Fix early serial hang when CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI is defined.

* Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 14 Sep 2004:
  Kick watchdog when bz-decompressing

  Fix problems with GCC 3.3.x which changed handling of global
  variables explicitly initialized to zero (now in .bss instead of
  .data as before).

* Patch by Leon Kukovec, 02 Mar 2004:
  add strswab() to fix IDE LBA capacity, firmware and model numbers
  on little endian machines

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 02 Mar 2004:
  - Remove get_ticks() from NFS code
  - Add verification of RPC transaction ID

* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 02 Mar 2004:
  cleanup for IDE and USB drivers for MPC5200

  - Added LBA48 support (CONFIG_LBA48 & CFG_64BIT_LBA)
  - Added support for 64bit printing in vsprintf (CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF)
  - Added support for 64bit strtoul (CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL)

* Patch by Masami Komiya, 27 Feb 2004:
  Fix rarpboot: add autoload by NFS

* Patch by Dan Eisenhut, 26 Feb 2004:
  fix flash_write return value in saveenv

* Patch by Stephan Linz, 11 Dec 2003
  expand config.mk to avoid trigraph warnings on NIOS

* Rename "BMS2003" board into "HMI10"

  - Added Motorola CPU 8540/8560 support (cpu/85xx)
  - Added Motorola MPC8540ADS board support (board/mpc8540ads)
  - Added Motorola MPC8560ADS board support (board/mpc8560ads)

* Minor code cleanup

add support for bzip2 uncompression

  allow selection of clock frequency as "make" target

* Implement memory autosizing code for IceCube boards

* Configure network port on INCA-IP for autonegotiation

* Fix overflow problem in network timeout code

* Patch by Richard Woodruff, 8 Aug 2003:
  Allow crc32 to be used at address 0x000 (crc32_no_comp, too).

* Provide consistent interface to standalone applications to access
  the 'global_data' structure
  Provide a doc/README.standalone more useful to users/developers.

* Make IceCube MGT5100 FEC driver work

get rid of MK_CMD_ENTRY macro; update doc/README.command

  - 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)

- Hymod board database mods: add "who" field and new xilinx chip types
- provide new "init_cmd_timeout()" function so code external to
  "common/main.c" can use the "reset_cmd_timeout()" function before
  entering the main loop
- add DTT support for adm1021 (new file dtt/adm1021.c; config
  slightly different. see include/configs/hymod.h for an example
  (requires CONFIG_DTT_ADM1021, CONFIG_DTT_SENSORS, and
  CFG_DTT_ADM1021 defined)
- add new "eeprom_probe()" function which has similar args and
  behaves in a similar way to "eeprom_read()" etc.
- add 8260 FCC ethernet loopback code (new "eth_loopback_test()"
  function which is enabled by defining CONFIG_ETHER_LOOPBACK_TEST)
- gdbtools copyright update
- ensure that set_msr() executes the "sync" and "isync" instructions
  after the "mtmsr" instruction in cpu/mpc8260/interrupts.c
- 8260 I/O ports fix: Open Drain should be set last when configuring
- add SIU IRQ defines for 8260
- allow LDSCRIPT override and OBJCFLAGS initialization: change to
  config.mk to allow board configurations to override the GNU
  linker script, selected via the LDSCRIPT, make variable, and to
  give an initial value to the OBJCFLAGS make variable
- 8260 i2c enhancement:
  o correctly extends the timeout depending on the size of all
    queued messages for both transmit and receive
  o will not continue with receive if transmit times out
  o ensures that the error callback is done for all queued tx
    and rx messages
  o correctly detects both tx and rx timeouts, only delivers one to
    the callback, and does not overwrite an earlier error
  o logic in i2c_probe now correct
- add "vprintf()" function so that "panic()" function can be
  technically correct
- many Hymod board changes

  Fixes for x86 port (mostly strings issues)

* Patch by Ken Chou, 18 Nov 2002:
  Fix for natsemi NIC cards (DP83815)

* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 19 Nov 2002:
  fix a bug for the MII configuration, and some warnings