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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:53:06 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/loader Makefile src/sys/boot/ia64/skiload Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040213175306.GB95973@ns1.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <1076665027.76557.11.camel@herring.nlsystems.com>
References:  <200402130445.i1D4jfXa006380@repoman.freebsd.org> <1076665027.76557.11.camel@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:37:07AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 04:45, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > marcel      2004/02/12 20:45:41 PST
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/boot/efi/loader  Makefile 
> >     sys/boot/ia64/skiload Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   Don't create a mapfile during link. It's not needed for the build.
> 
> I believe it was there from when I was tring to debug the inital loader
> port.

Yes. What's your point?

> The debug flags for skiload were there for my script which loaded
> the kernel and set a ski breakpoint at '__start' - it set breakpoints
> inside skiload so that it could swap symbol tables after the kernel was
> loaded.

The script still works. All you need is an unstripped loader. You
don't need debug information for that.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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