Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:01:30 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz |
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:48:59PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Nathan Paul Simons wrote: > > As for the argument of putting it in the kernel being more robust and > > idiot-proof, well, if someone can't keep three files and one directory > > straight for each different configuration of the kernel that they want to > > play with, they probably shouldn't be configuring and compiling kernels in > > the first place. You can't idiot-proof the world, and even if you could, some > > things really shouldn't be. > > I for one can't even keep two files straight - my kernel is forever > getting out of synch with my System.map. Of course, I may be the only > person that has ever had this happen to them. ;-) I am all for > idiot-proofing things where you can, especially when the idiot is me.
What you need is a bootloader than can read uncompressed vmlinux directly, and use that for booting. Then you can always directly extract the System.map out of the vmlinux using nm or gdb.
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