Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:29:30 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk kmod.mk Message-ID: <864q723dqt.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20051027174042.GK68470@ip.net.ua> (Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:40:42 %2B0300") References: <200510271424.j9REOkr8091913@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0510271714530.91525@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <20051027174042.GK68470@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:15:28PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Log: > > > Installing debug modules was a bad idea -- I bogusly assumed that > > > our kernel linker will only load PT_LOAD segments, apparently not. > > > Instead, produce .dbg objects from .debug objects, and install > > > them together with non-debug objects, as described in objcopy(1). > > is that because of this change? > Yes. I sent a patch for kldxref(8) that fixes this for review to > amd64@. These messages are harmless otherwise. Wouldn't it be cleaner (and potentially simpler) to fix this by making the kernel linker skip non-PT_LOAD sections? (I just peeked at sys/kern/link_elf.c and it looks to me like it *already* DTRT, so what exactly is the problem?) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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