Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:20:45 -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: <20090706212045.GA91095@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org> 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> <cf9b1ee00907060141w110e36c3p5922d31b3acd1f62@mail.gmail.com> <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com> <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org>
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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
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