RE: [IDEA] Developers: your opinion badly needed ! I Think we have a solution

Roelf Diedericks (roelf@ttdesk.co.za)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:50:50 +0200

I like this idea a lot --- Stick the System.Map and .config as files
into wherever the kernel gets installed with a unique number (perhaps a
CRC),
or a kernel byte filesize appended to the filename.

eg. /boot/System.map.c3132b
and /boot/.config.c3132b

Then change procfs, to read the files from /boot, whenever a request
is made for /proc/config.gz ...

VOILA! Minimal kernel bloat, and exactly the functionality that we're
looking
for!

> -----Original Message-----
> Perhaps the system map (and .config too) could be stuck onto to kernel in
> such a fashion that they dont get loaded into memory. Lilo would prob then
> need to be modified to pass to the kernel 'who it is'. Then there could be
> a sysctl to request the filename of the currently running kernel..
>

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Roelf Diedericks (roelf@ttdesk.co.za) Senior Systems Engineer
The Trading Desk (PTY) Ltd. South Africa
"Flay me, hang me, play me The Barbie Song"
Views expressed are my own and may not be those of my employer.
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