Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:46:57 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hasty@netcom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DDB symbols Message-ID: <199502201247.EAA02186@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Feb 95 21:14:56 %2B1100." <199502201014.VAA18445@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>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. If done early in locore, this is actually very trivial - it's simply a matter of not preserving them. Good idea, Bruce! -DG
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