Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:40:11 +0400 From: Alexey Neyman <alex.neyman@auriga.ru> To: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 atomic.c autoconf.c bios.c busdma_machdep.c critical.c db_disasm.c db_interface.c db_trace.c dump_machdep.c elan-mmcr.c elf_machdep.c genassym.c i386-gdbstub.c i686_mem.c identcpu.c in_cksum.c initcpu.c k6_mem.c legacy.c ... Message-ID: <200306022039.29859.alex.neyman@auriga.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030602150236.GE87972@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200306020643.h526hGg8017066@repoman.freebsd.org> <200306021221.47700.alex.neyman@auriga.ru> <20030602150236.GE87972@dragon.nuxi.com>
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hi, there!
On Monday 02 June 2003 19:02, David O'Brien wrote:
DO>> BTW, I have a patch that strips the version information (more
precisely,
DO>> .comment section, that contains $FreeBSD$ strings and a handful of
DO>> compiler versions "GCC: (GNU) 3.2.2 [FreeBSD] 20030205 (release)")
into
DO>> a separate file and installs it under a separate name
(${KMOD}.version
DO>> or kernel.version).
DO>
DO> What's the problem with a large amount .comment section bits? They
DO> should not be loaded into memory when an ELF file is loaded. The
only
DO> place it causes trouble is on the installation floppies when the
size of
DO> the file on disk is an issue -- but we strip out the .comment
section
DO> when building the floppy images.
Well, sorry for the noise. I just checked that 5.0-RELEASE floppies
contain the .comment section in the kernel. However, 5.1-BETA2 do not,
that is, such stripping was introduced somewhere in between... This,
of course, renders this patch useless.
Regards,
Alexey.
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