From owner-freebsd-ia64 Wed Sep 27 1:13:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D122F37B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13eCLO-000NxF-0X; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:13:37 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA79286; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:18:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:13:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Native ski [Re: freebsd-ia64 list is live] In-Reply-To: <39D1349D.FCCFD1F2@cup.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > > I've been in contact with the ski developers and it looks like they let > > > me port ski to FreeBSD. I intend to make both an Intel version and an > > > Alpha version (if time allows). I don't consider the port definite yet, > > > but it's sufficiently realistic that I thought I could let you know > > > already. > > > > > > I'll keep you posted! > > > > This is excellent news. Its proving quite useful for debugging the really > > low-level parts of the kernel. I just wish it was a bit faster - it spends > > up to 20 seconds at a time doing symbol lookups. Possibly given source > > access that could be improved. > > I haven't had any problems with ski in that respect. Can it be related > to minor differences between Linux and FreeBSD, such as name mangling? I'm not sure. I built the kernel for debugging but I'm giving the stripped kernel to ski. Perhaps I'll try building a non-debug kernel. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message