From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 20 04:47:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA20258 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:47:30 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA20252 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:47:26 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA02033; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:47:06 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA02186; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:47:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199502201247.EAA02186@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: hasty@netcom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DDB symbols In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Feb 95 21:14:56 +1100." <199502201014.VAA18445@godzilla.zeta.org.au> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:46:57 -0800 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. If done early in locore, this is actually very trivial - it's simply a matter of not preserving them. Good idea, Bruce! -DG