Re: of: Add OF_SYMBOLS

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:10 PM Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Allows telling dtc to emit the __symbols__ section in produced Device Tree
> Blobs, which in turn allows using overlay Device Tree Blobs which reference
> nodes from the base Device Tree using such symbols.
> This does not presume of what will apply the overlay (bootloader, kernel,
> fdtoverlay...).

A global option is not something we're going to accept. It needs to be
per dtb or soc family at least.

IIRC, you can just set DTC_FLAGS on the make command line if you want
to enable symbols globally.

Also, note that Viresh is working on adding overlay support[1].

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/cover.1609844956.git.viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx/



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