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Date:      13 Feb 2004 18:14:18 +0000
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/loader Makefile src/sys/boot/ia64/skiload Makefile
Message-ID:  <1076696058.4735.4.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040213175306.GB95973@ns1.xcllnt.net>
References:  <200402130445.i1D4jfXa006380@repoman.freebsd.org> <1076665027.76557.11.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> <20040213175306.GB95973@ns1.xcllnt.net>

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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:53, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 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.

I thought that ru@ had asked why things were done this way - I was
trying to explain.





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