Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:02:51PM +0200, ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
>   
>>> It was recently pointed out that a few commands (vmstat, netstat)
>>> require a kernel file (/netbsd) in the root filesystem in order to
>>> provide, for example, accurate statistics.
>>>
>>>       
>> That's not true.  When I added /dev/ksyms a few years ago I changed
>> the kvm routines to try that first.  Only if you have removed the
>> ksyms pseudo-device the tools will use the /netbsd namelist.
>>     
>
> In some situations ksyms are unusable because the kernel was passed
> wrong data about symbol table location.  This is the case when GRUB is
> used to boot netbsd directly.
>
> However, the Xen hypervisor doesn't seem to suffer from that issue, at
> least it doesn't on my installation.
>
>   

Hmm... on a recent sparc64-current, I get:

garrett@salt{27}> vmstat -e
vmstat: undefined symbols: _intrnames _eintrnames _intrcnt _eintrcnt _bucket


Not sure what is going on here.  I've been more concerned with evbmips,
where there is *no* bootloader.

I'd much rather have this stuff use a sysctl rather than a kmem groveler
by default.

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