Re: having System.map reflect the running kernel

Kai Schulte (sp0005@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de)
Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:30:55 +0200 (MESZ)


On Tue, 29 Aug 1995 mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com wrote:
(About keeping the System.map in the kernel image file)

> 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