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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:30:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, jonny@jonny.eng.br, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Use of LKMs (was: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.kern.mk src/sys/alpha/conf Makefile.alpha) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812231028570.25052-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812230532.NAA39231@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Greg Lehey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 23:27:39 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > >> #define quoting(Bruce Evans)
> > >> // 	src/lkm                 ->  src/sys/lkm (like src/sys/modules)
> > >>
> > >> Is there a reason to keep the lkm's, now that kld's are working ?
> > >> (Aren't they ?)
> > >
> > > They might still be being used.
> > 
> > [Somehow I missed the original of this]
> > 
> > What's the current situation for kld debugging?  I'm using Vinum as an
> > lkm because I can debug it that way.
> 
> It works just fine, with one exception..  With LKM's you use a fixed 
> offset to skip the header - 0x20 from memory.  With KLD's you have to get 
> that from the header:
> # objdump --headers /modules/vinum.ko | more
> Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
> [..]
>   6 .text         0000915c  000051e4  000051e4  000051e4  2**2
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> In this case, it would be 0x51e4 as the symbol offset rather than 0x20.
> 
> Scriptifying that could be fun though.. :-/

Perhaps an #ifdef DDB extra field in struct linker_file which the ELF
backend could fill in with the correct offset?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
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