Ubuntu mainline kernel builds debug situation

[Tim Gardner]

On 04/21/2014 02:19 AM, Esokrates wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, please keep me in CC if you response to that mail as I am not
> subscribed to the kernel-team list.
>
> I have one question of an issue that really bugs me: Why are there no dbgsym
> builds of the mainline kernels?
> It is really nice to have the mainline builds, but after all those are the
> latest (experimental) kernels, which will have bugs and debugging without
> debug symbols is not really helpful.
> Kernel panics will be not debugable without the symbols, so my question is:
> Will you provide that in the future?
> What are the difficulties to be solved in order to provide debug symbols?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Esokrates
>

I believe it is an issue of space v.s. utilization. Mainline kernels are 
primarily used for coarse bisecting. There are not many casual users 
that know how to use the debug symbols. The debug debs are also quite 
large, on the order of 500MB per kernel.

rtg
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