From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:02:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:02:05 -0400 Received: from [144.137.82.31] ([144.137.82.31]:23054 "EHLO localhost") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:01:58 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Keith Owens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2001 17:16:33 +1000." <13470.996995793@ocs3.ocs-net> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 00:02:51 +1000 Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message <13470.996995793@ocs3.ocs-net> you write: > >Eewwww.... > > > > How about just adding /proc/ksyms-ia64 with the code pointers > >which contains the ia64 code addresses required by ksymoops and > >debuggers. These are, after all, less vital than insmod. > > That requires changes to every kernel debugger, oops decoder etc. I > don't control all of Linux debugging yet ;). It is also more work > because it requires kernel changes as well as lots of user space. For ia64 only. IMHO, that's a better line to draw. Rusty. -- Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK