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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:26:19 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk
Message-ID:  <20050911122619.GA6514@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050911115526.A33344@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <20050911115526.A33344@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> If it is decided to keep this change in the tree, then we should make sure 
> that removing it is added to the "Create a -STABLE branch" directions -- 
> systems as recent as early to middle 4.x have quite small roots, and 
> cannot support debugging kernel information for kernel and kernel.old. 

It should be mentioned that DragonFly installs /kernel without stripping
at all, but /kernel.old gets stripped. Since /kernel.old is normally a
fallback kernel, it seems to be a good trade-off.

Joerg



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