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Date:      Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:18:35 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk
Message-ID:  <20050912181835.GB96329@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <4325C332.3060105@root.org>
References:  <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <p0623090bbf493c4e4b1e@[128.113.24.47]> <20050911022901.GA3090@xor.obsecurity.org> <432397EF.5000409@FreeBSD.org> <4324A5EF.3050803@root.org> <20050911215807.GA96773@xor.obsecurity.org> <4325A5A1.8080804@root.org> <20050912165939.GB94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <4325C332.3060105@root.org>

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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:04:34AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > I think a better approach would be to split the kernel into runnable
> > part and symbols part.  The symbols would be bzip2'ed and kept beside
> > the runnable part.  kgdb would grow support to read a bzip2'ed file
> > (using libbz2.so).  Then the space issue wouldn't be such an issue.
> 
> This sounds good to me.

Me too.  But I'm not volenteering to do the work.  The kgdb developer
would need to (or someone else sufficiently motivied).
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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