On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 17:02:27 +0100 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" hns@goldelico.com wrote:
Nevertheless the description of -@ "Enable generation of symbols" is not very helpful. Why would one enable that? What happens if not? What are "symbols" etc. Questions over questions...
I think it's referring the symbols as in debug symbols, the kind of thing you need to build in in order to get anything sensible out of gdb, assuming it's even possible to debug this.
But a bit of internet searching got me to this commit: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtc/commit/dd6a0533e846e8d5e690a618fa35cc15...
That says: "This is sufficient to implement a dynamic DT object loader."
Whether you actually want that I don't know, and I couldn't tell you how to pass the right option to dtc within the wrapped up tools. But you did ask the question...