Re: Problems with amd64 -current - bootloader cannot load modules?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:15:46PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > When booting either my custom/minimalistic kernel or a GENERIC kernel,
> > it gets as far as printing the sizes of the various sections, and then
> > gives the message
> >
> >      head full (0x6cd08+16384)
        ^^^^
Obvious typo in transcription, should have read

        heap full (0x6cd08+16384)

> Did the size of modules change for amd64 recently? (Unwind info or new
> binutils are obvious candidates, though the former should not have this
> effect on amd64.)

Using objdump on the ffs.kmod files from 6.99.23 running system and the 
6.99.24 distribution directory, I get the following:

Idx Name             Size .23      Size .24     Change
  0 .text            00024469      00024409       -60
  1 .eh_frame        00003e90      00003e90         0
  2 .rodata.str1.8   00001228      00001228         0
  3 .rodata.str1.1   000006bd      000006bd         0
  4 .rodata          00001158      00001158         0
  5 link_set_modules 00000008      00000008         0
  6 .data            000001f0      000001f0         0
  7 .ident           000006a7      000006a1        -6

So, the newer ffs module is actually _smaller_ than the old one?


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