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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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