On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > I am preparing to move the standalone kernel debug data out of > /boot/kernel/ into /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, mirroring the approach > used for userland debug data. This significantly reduces the boot > partition size requirement, and is a step towards supporting the > installation of kernel debug data ony when required. LLDB and GDB > automatically search for debug data under /usr/lib/debug/ so this > change should be transparent from an end-user perspective. > > The change can be reviewed in Phabricator at > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1006 and can be fetched as a unified diff > from https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/patches/D1006.diff > > This does not change any defaults or knobs: kernel debug files are > still built by default, and may be disabled by setting > WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=YES in /etc/src.conf. I hope to rationalize > this with userland debug in a later step. > > Note that the change renames the intermediate and debug data files to > be consistent with userland debug data: in the build directory the > kernel with debug data included is now named kernel.full, and and > kernel.debug is the standalone debug data file. > > I plan to merge this in a few days if there are no issues reported in > further review or testing. > > -Ed > Finally! This is great news. /usr/lib seems like an odd place, though. Does not seem to match the description in hier(7) (not that the man page can't be updated). Looks to me like it fits /var a bit better, though I'm not sure that much data is appropriate for many /var partitions. Still, wherever the symbol files end up, getting them out of root is something many people have wanted for a long time. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.comReceived on Wed Oct 29 2014 - 02:04:06 UTC
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