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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Subject: Re: no kld in minidumps
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on 18/08/2006 05:56 Devon H. O'Dell said the following:
> 
> Yeah, you have to do some magic to debug KLDs. Basically, you have to
> figure out where they were loaded by walking the module list, and then
> tell GDB where to find the TEXT section using add-symbol-file.
> Instructions for this are available at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-kld.html

BTW, has anyone contemplated or even done this - some sort of a script
to automatically add all modules that were loaded at a time of crash ?

-- 
Andriy Gapon