Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 09:02:51 EST


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.

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