From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 23:54:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8E7106566C for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:54:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D64E8FC0C for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp121-45-158-44.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.158.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o75NsEWJ035618 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:24:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-7--49939691; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:24:14 +0930 In-Reply-To: <201008051708.o75H8k1F090726@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doconnor@gsoft.com.au References: <201008051708.o75H8k1F090726@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-Id: <50BEF58B-A155-4C46-B512-C94E0FD95D3E@gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Spam-Score: 2.766 (**) BAYES_00, RDNS_DYNAMIC, TO_NO_BRKTS_DIRECT, TO_NO_BRKTS_DYNIP X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:54:23 -0000 --Apple-Mail-7--49939691 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 06/08/2010, at 2:38, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel >> is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with >> the symbol files it is not possible. >=20 > I think a very simple solution would be to install the symbol > files elsewhere (probably configurable via make.conf), and > install symlinks in the kernel directory. If you do this, > tools using the symbol files won't have to be changed. >=20 > This would probably be a fairly trivial change to the install- > kernel target, I guess. I don't have patches, though. Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what it = will break :) The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so it = tells gdb where to find the symbols. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail-7--49939691--