From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 21:20:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF9B106567E for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from hamlet.setfilepointer.com (hamlet.SetFilePointer.com [63.224.10.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 827868FC29 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 60912 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2009 16:20:45 -0500 Received: from keira.kiwi-computer.com (HELO kiwi-computer.com) (63.224.10.3) by hamlet.setfilepointer.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 2009 16:20:45 -0500 Received: (qmail 91449 invoked by uid 2001); 6 Jul 2009 21:20:45 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:20:45 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Ruben de Groot , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Message-ID: <20090706212045.GA91095@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20090703144121.GC11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A4E1E24.3020303@andric.com> <20090703152150.GE11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20090705003834.12211k8697td2o74@webmail.private.lan> <20090706073941.GA78371@ei.bzerk.org> <20090706074256.GD6306@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A51B721.5020505@andric.com> <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com> <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:20:47 -0000 On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Dimitry Andric typed: > > > > Right, so it's a lot bigger on amd64. I guess those 64-bit pointers > > aren't entirely free. :) > > I'm not sure where the size difference comes from. I have some sparc64 > systems running -current with symbols and the size of /boot/kernel is > more comparable to i386, even with the 8-byte pointer size: Um, probably there are a lot of devices on amd64 that aren't available for sparc64? -- Rick C. Petty