Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: What is System.map for? | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:15:16 -0500 (EST) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> The System.map is your kernel's symbol table, and it's needed to load > modules that use symbols that are internal to the kernel (e.g. most > modules, if not all). If you aren't using modules, I don't think it's used > unless you are doing debugging, or stack traces and such. Might want to > keep it around tho.
Modules use an abbreviated COMPILED-IN table of symbols. They do not rely on System.map
AFAIK, this internal table is visible in /proc/ksyms
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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