On 06/08/2010, at 2:38, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel >> is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with >> the symbol files it is not possible. > > I think a very simple solution would be to install the symbol > files elsewhere (probably configurable via make.conf), and > install symlinks in the kernel directory. If you do this, > tools using the symbol files won't have to be changed. > > This would probably be a fairly trivial change to the install- > kernel target, I guess. I don't have patches, though.
Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what it will break :) The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so it tells gdb where to find the symbols. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C