On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:39:53AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:20:48PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > >>Let me clarify it down: it is only applies to HEAD, that is, unstable > >>branch, which can be inheretedly buggy. STABLE/RELEASE doesn't really > >>need this feature. This dismisses the following objections: > > > > > >I think it's more important in HEAD, but personally I would like to ship > >this way. It has the potential to vastly improve the quality of bug > >reports. That's not my call though. > > > > > >>1. HDD size constrains: nobody really want to run unpatched HEAD on CF > >>or the like, since with HEAD you are expected to re-compile more than > >>often. > >> > >>2. / partition size: anybody running HEAD is expected to allow this > >>accomodate debugging kernel. > >> > >>3. Additional slowdown: since it is adds up to 10 seconds (I bet that > >>even less on a modern system) who cares? This is HEAD, so that it is > >>expected to be sub-optimal performance-wise. > > > > > >I seriously doubt it's measurable. If it is, the loader is broken. :-) > >We're talking about reading a section header and doing a seek for each > >ELF section we don't care about (all the ones that bloat the file > >relative to the stripped version.) > > Actually, another possbility would be to have the kernel install target > install the stripped kernel into /boot/kernel/kernel and the debug > kernel into /var/kernel/kernel.debug or some similar location. Some place in var seems like a good place to me. We may want to bump our default /var size a bit based on this but that's a minor detail. The nice thing about /var/crash would be that everything you need to debug a crash dump would be under a single hierarchy. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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