Re: debug kernels

[Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:24:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:29PM +0300, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Any reasons to keep options DEBUG, DIAGNOSTIC and KMEMSTATS enabled in
> > XEN* kernels ? I think maybe it's time to ship no-debug kernels in our
> > releases as XEN port became stable enough.
> 
> This has been usefull detecting bugs in the past, now that GENERIC
> doesn't have DIAGNOSTIC any more.
> 
> I think HEAD kernel should be built with DIAGNOSTIC, and it should be
> removed in release branches only.

We discussed this before on ICB.  People do benchmarks on -current.  Please
don't add it to the i386/amd64 configs..

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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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