From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 7:50:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay01.esat.net (relay01.esat.net [192.111.39.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 562F515810 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 07:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsmart@kira.team400.ie) Received: from (kira.team400.ie) [193.120.161.61] by relay01.esat.net with esmtp id 10Utcw-00006u-00; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:48:26 +0100 Message-ID: <370B7039.4AEE986B@kira.team400.ie> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:48:25 +0100 From: Niall Smart Organization: Trinity Commerce X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Veto? (was: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)) References: <19990407114127.Y2142@lemis.com> <19990407141928.C2142@lemis.com> <19990407125453.15859.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Black wrote: > > > I don't even rely on my own memory :-) Evidence is more convincing. > > :-) > > > >> Does anybody want to execute a power of veto, or shall I commit some > > >> changes? > > > > > > If you turn it on, make it a DEAD SNAP to turn it off > > > (maybe even look as sysctl hw.usermem or something.) > > > > I think a sysctl would be wrong. Environment variable if you want. > > But I think config -s would be the way to go. Maybe I can print an > > explicit message: > > > > # config GENERIC > > Building kernel with full symbolic support. Do "config -s GENERIC" > > for historic partial symbolic support. > > > > Don't forget to do a ``make depend'' > > Kernel build directory is ../../compile/GENERIC, "Historical partial symbolic support"? There has to be a better wording. Niall "Two Cents" Smart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message