From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 20 02:20:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA03640 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 02:20:16 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA03630 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 02:20:06 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA18445; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:14:56 +1100 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:14:56 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199502201014.VAA18445@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: davidg@Root.COM, hasty@netcom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: DDB symbols Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I hope that the man page or some obvious place is stated that you >need the new boot blocks and to type "-D" at the boot prompt >to load the symbols. I know that I am using current... This will probably change before it is documented. "-D" is too much trouble to type. I think it would be best to always load the symbols (if they fit) and throw them out if ddb isn't in the kernel. The main reason this isn't already done is that there is no room in the boot blocks for checking if things fit. >A good place would be in the FAQ about kernel debugging. Just >a few lines there may save future kernel hackers a lot of headaches. `find /sys/ | xargs grep symbol'. Bruce