Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

Hmm not sure I like this idea as it would make it more difficult to make 
a copy / backup a kernel.

ATM when I want to copy a kernel for debugging its a one liner, 
splitting debug symbols off to /usr/lib would prevent this.

Is there not a way to allow separate install of the debug files but to 
the same location maintaining compartmentalization for the needed kernel 
files?

On 29/10/2014 00:20, Ed Maste 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
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