Subject: Re: kernel & libkvm [was IIci success]
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/12/1996 11:41:06
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 07:06:38 -0500
>From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
>
>>> Are there any ports left without working NetBSD bootblocks?
>> Yes. The mac68k port still boots via MacOS.
>
>But the booter program is NetBSD, right?  I guess I meant, are there
>any ports left that use someone else's boot code?  Ports for which we
>couldn't tweak the booter program to make sure the kernel symbol table
>gets loaded into core along with the rest of the kernel?

DDB already does this.  Any port that supports DDB already loads the
kernel symbol table into core if it is configured.  That's why you see
the 'preserving NNNNN bytes of netbsd symbol table' message.
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