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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:39:12 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>,  FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: devdmatch: Can't read linker file.
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I wouldn't. It make read-only root a pain in the back side.... Better to
fix kldxref to be a build tool that can cope.

And it isn't something that needs to be done on every boot.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> Hm.  Perhaps we should make kldxref_enable default to YES by default
> on all platforms, then?  The overhead is pretty much none when it has
> nothing to do - it won't try to recreate the linker.hints if it already
> exists.
>
> 2018-03-14 17:01 GMT+00:00 Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>:
>
>> FWIW, I ran into this issue on an i386 image I built from an amd64 host
>> using poudriere and poudriere image.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 03/13/2018 14:44, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>> Makes sense. I'd forgotten that kldxref can't do cross-platform stuff..=
..
>>> One could arrange to build it targeting arch X but running on the nativ=
e
>>> host and fix things that way. Nobody has care enough to do that, though
>>> perhaps this gives us a use case for why one might want to try.
>>>
>>> Warner
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13 Mar 2018, at 19:12, Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think it's only needed for kernels that are cross-built.  That's due
>>>> to
>>>> kldxref(8) being unable to handle kernels for other architectures.
>>>>
>>>> my case exactly.
>>>>
>>>> 2018-03-13 13:34 GMT+00:00 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>:
>>>>
>>>> I wonder why that isn't the default, or why the linker.hints isn't at
>>>>> least
>>>>> created by the make installkernel step...
>>>>>
>>>>> Warner
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:40 AM, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a <
>>>>> trasz@freebsd.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, it seems to be a common problem, see
>>>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/
>>>>>> D14534.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 0312T1027, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, is there a /boot/kernel/linker.hints?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Warner
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.i=
l
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> the above i get on arm/nanopi-neo. (it=E2=80=99s the only platform=
 I run
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> current
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>>>>          danny
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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