Subject: Re: Boot blocks croak on kernels with full debug table
To: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/1996 15:02:27
>>As far as I know, 4.4-Lite didn't actually load symbols.  I doubt that
>>BSD/OS loads them, as well.

>	Neither look like they do.

I've recently been able to do this with FreeBSD 2.1.0 and a roughly
6MB fully debug-symboled kernel (fairly light-weight, relatively
speaking).

>>NetBSD actually does load the symbols into memory, and even keeps them
>>there if you have DDB enabled.

Does it give you anything extra besides source line numbers?

>	Ok, I didn't know this. Does this work with KGDB? (and, for that
>matter, is it just me, or is KGDB not really in the i386 port?)

Is there any documentation on KGDB (or a way to do source-level
debugging of the kernel, even if remotely through a serial port)?

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