Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:09:28 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? Message-ID: <20090707160928.GA1662@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <20090707092451.GA92743@ei.bzerk.org> References: <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> <cf9b1ee00907060141w110e36c3p5922d31b3acd1f62@mail.gmail.com> <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com> <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org> <20090706212045.GA91095@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20090707092451.GA92743@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Rick C. Petty typed: > > 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? > > Yes, That's probably it. It was just a theory; I don't have sparc64. What's your output of "ls -1 /boot/kernel | wc"? -- Rick C. Petty
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