Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:21:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel config part of /kernel Message-ID: <199606011721.LAA05505@intele.net> In-Reply-To: <199605311812.OAA03556@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at May 31, 96 02:12:02 pm
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% Does anybody remember how kernels built with the 1.1.5 release always had
% a copy of its config file tacked onto the binary, that could be viewed
% with a quick "strings /386bsd|more". Is this something anyone else would
% like to see back in the kernel builds?
> Me, for one. I didn't want to see it go -- but it was shot down as a waste
> of memory for the stuff to be in there... I found it useful and we did
> it at Pyramid in OS/x.
>
> (How about conditional compilation to config to allow/disallow it)
How 'bout sticking it in a segment the kernel loader won't put in
RAM? Then it'd only cost a little disk space per kernel.
--
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Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder
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