Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 19:54:19 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting debug kernels (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 locore.s) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006091924010.2043-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20000609101414.O79769@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 10:53:44 -0700, Bruce Evans wrote: > > bde 2000/06/08 10:53:43 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/i386 locore.s > > Log: > > Always include the full symbol table (as specified by its start and > > end values in bootinfo) in kernel space if it is loaded (i.e., if its > > specified end address is nonzero), not just if it is loaded and DDB > > is configured. This may be used to fix kldsym(2) for booting without > I think this is worth a HEADS UP, or at least a mention in UPDATING. I disagree. This only affects broken configurations. > Is there any way to boot such a kernel and discard the symbols? Not at boot time. Use strip(1) to strip unwanted symbols. The symbol table has become very bloated even for non-deubugging kernels, but boot time is not the time to reduce it. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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