[ale] System.map

[scott thomason]

It's my understanding that with modern kernels (including recent 2.2.x releases), System.map is unnecessary unless you're trying to translate kernel oopses into symbolic names to make debugging easier. So if you aren't planning on debugging kernel problems, System.map is unnecessary. I intentionally read up on this in the 2.4 kernel doc, as I have often wondered about it. However, I'm only 90% certain. Comments, anyone?
---scott

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:11:56 -0500, Chris Fowler said:

> I've never copied System.map.  I've always reran lilo.  What is the main
>  purpose of system.map?  
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Ben Coleman [mailto:oloryn at mindspring.com]
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:41 PM
>  To: ale at ale.org
>  Subject: Re: [ale] System.map
>  
>  
>  buggz wrote:
>  > 
>  > make install does this for you...
>  
>  But not everyone does 'make install' when compiling and installing a
>  kernel, particularly when compiling on one machine and installing on
>  many others.  Hence my suspicion that he, say, copied the kernel itself
>  to the other machines, but not System.map.
>  
>  Ben
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