On Saturday,  6 April 2002 at 23:40:45 -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>> Note that the kernel binary with debugging symbols is left in
>>> /sys/compile/MYKERNEL/kernel.debug while the actual kernel is stripped
>>> before installation into /kernel.
>>>
>>> If the debugging kernel was actually loaded it would be gigantic :)
>>
>> No, since the transition to ELF, none of the debugging information
>> gets loaded into core.  Try it.
>
> Huh?  I know that since 3.X, the kernel with debugging symbols is NOT
> loaded into the actual installed, running kernel. However, you can specify
> a debugging kernel to kgdb as the exec-file and it will load
> properly.

Sure, but that wasn't the question.

Greg
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