> Like a section at the end of the kernel image
> that contains data that does not need to be in kernel-space, but is
> specific to this particular image.
Yes, this sounds very good. It's especially useful if you use one machine
to compile kernels for others. Most of the time, discarding the map
information won't do any harm, but if you have a panic or an 'oops' there's
no way to find out where it came from.
Kai