Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:29:24 +0300 From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com Cc: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? Message-ID: <cf9b1ee00907070929s6bf10465l8ab9eca24dfb0b51@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090707160928.GA1662@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20090703152150.GE11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <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> <20090707160928.GA1662@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Rick C.
Petty<rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com> wrote:
> 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. =A0I guess those 64-bit poin=
ters
>> > > > aren't entirely free. :)
>> > >
>> > > I'm not sure where the size difference comes from. I have some sparc=
64
>> > > systems running -current with symbols and the size of /boot/kernel i=
s
>> > > 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. =A0What's your output of
> "ls -1 /boot/kernel | wc"?
>
> -- Rick C. Petty
atom# uname -a
FreeBSD atom.localdomain 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed
Jun 24 00:14:35 UTC 2009
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
atom# ls -1 /boot/kernel | wc
1011 1011 15243
- Sincerely,
Dan Naumov
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