Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:53:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, nate@root.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <200509121753.j8CHrGGe049612@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20050912165939.GB94181@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On 12 Sep, David O'Brien wrote: > I think a better approach would be to split the kernel into runnable part > and symbols part. The symbols would be bzip2'ed and kept beside the > runnable part. kgdb would grow support to read a bzip2'ed file (using > libbz2.so). Then the space issue wouldn't be such an issue. Why not just bzip2 the symbols before storing them in kernel.debug? Kgdb would still have to grow support for decompressing the debug info that it reads from the executable.
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