From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue Sep 26 16:43:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE68937B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1EFBCC; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id QAA17264; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39D1349D.FCCFD1F2@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:43:25 -0400 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Rabson Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Native ski [Re: freebsd-ia64 list is live] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson wrote: > > > I've been in contact with the ski developers and it looks like they let > > me port ski to FreeBSD. I intend to make both an Intel version and an > > Alpha version (if time allows). I don't consider the port definite yet, > > but it's sufficiently realistic that I thought I could let you know > > already. > > > > I'll keep you posted! > > This is excellent news. Its proving quite useful for debugging the really > low-level parts of the kernel. I just wish it was a bit faster - it spends > up to 20 seconds at a time doing symbol lookups. Possibly given source > access that could be improved. I haven't had any problems with ski in that respect. Can it be related to minor differences between Linux and FreeBSD, such as name mangling? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message