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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:14:14 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Booting debug kernels (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 locore.s)
Message-ID:  <20000609101414.O79769@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006081753.KAA94610@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200006081753.KAA94610@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thursday,  8 June 2000 at 10:53:44 -0700, Bruce Evans wrote:
> bde         2000/06/08 10:53:43 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/i386        locore.s
>   Log:
>   Always include the full symbol table (as specified by its start and
>   end values in bootinfo) in kernel space if it is loaded (i.e., if its
>   specified end address is nonzero), not just if it is loaded and DDB
>   is configured.  This may be used to fix kldsym(2) for booting without
>   /dev/loader; currently, in this case, it just fixes unused pointers
>   and wastes space consistently.  For booting in the normal way with
>   /boot/loader, the table is included and pointed to in a different way
>   and kldsym(2) works.

I think this is worth a HEADS UP, or at least a mention in UPDATING.
Is there any way to boot such a kernel and discard the symbols?

Greg
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