Hi, [Moving the discussion on -hackers@]
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote: >> On 2011-Sep-26 19:48:23 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote: >>>On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>>> The problem with /boot on a dedicated partition is the the kernel, >>>> since at least 8.x, is installed by default with a vast majority of >>>> crap. That's all the .symbols, that 99% of FreeBSD users will never >>>> uses. >>> >>>My recollection is that this is because kensmith forgot to take >>>'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' out of GENERIC when branching stable/8, and no one >> >> Not quite - 'DEBUG=-g' was a deliberate move to make it easier for >> developers to talk users through faultfinding kernel issues. >> >> The correct fix is to install the .symbols files somewhere other than >> /boot/kernel - unfortunately, no-one has developed the necessary >> changes to the kernel installation. >> > I did too, will put patches online soon. > available here: https://github.com/lacombar/freebsd/commit/c1d5c4857361028dc40941273dd2ab9576c687fd This patch adds a KODIR_SYMBOLS variables which is to the kernel and modules .symbols files what the KODIR variable is to the kernel and modules files. By default ${KODIR_SYMBOLS} = ${KODIR}. - Arnaud _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
