Since the toolchain does not give indication when the specified sections
are absent, we read the sections first and make this report by issuing a
warning to the developer.
The toolchain by default strips the image with the -s option (even
when -s is not specified):
-s --strip-all Remove all symbol and relocation information
For example, these sections are always removed:
.debug_aranges
.debug_info
.debug_abbrev
.debug_line
.debug_frame
.debug_str
.debug_loc
.debug_ranges
.symtab
.strtab
In addition to these, the sections listed in
KERNEL_IMAGE_STRIP_EXTRA_SECTIONS will also be removed.
Only stripping of vmlinux (elf) is supported at this time. A warning
will be given if the image type is not vmlinux.
Stripping the image could also be done in the kernel, but that would
only work for linux-yocto based kernels, so it's not the route we
decided to go.
[YOCTO 3515]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>