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Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols?
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Rick C. Petty typed:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Dimitry Andric typed:
> > > 
> > > Right, so it's a lot bigger on amd64.  I guess those 64-bit pointers
> > > aren't entirely free. :)
> > 
> > I'm not sure where the size difference comes from. I have some sparc64
> > systems running -current with symbols and the size of /boot/kernel is
> > more comparable to i386, even with the 8-byte pointer size:
> 
> Um, probably there are a lot of devices on amd64 that aren't available for
> sparc64?

Yes, That's probably it.