Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:24:14 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doconnor@gsoft.com.au Subject: Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location Message-ID: <50BEF58B-A155-4C46-B512-C94E0FD95D3E@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <201008051708.o75H8k1F090726@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <201008051708.o75H8k1F090726@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--Apple-Mail-7--49939691 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 06/08/2010, at 2:38, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel >> is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with >> the symbol files it is not possible. >=20 > I think a very simple solution would be to install the symbol > files elsewhere (probably configurable via make.conf), and > install symlinks in the kernel directory. If you do this, > tools using the symbol files won't have to be changed. >=20 > This would probably be a fairly trivial change to the install- > kernel target, I guess. I don't have patches, though. Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what it = will break :) The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so it = tells gdb where to find the symbols. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail-7--49939691--
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