kgzip(8) regression in RELENG_9 GENERIC

[Devin Teske]

On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:41 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:

> On 01/20/2012 09:02 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>> Taking a GENERIC 9.0-RELEASE kernel and running kgzip(8) on it produces an
>> unusable kernel which causes immediate BTX halt in loader(8).
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> 4. Say: kgzip kernel
> 
> Curious, it doesn't even look like that binary is hooked into the build
> process at all on 9.0-RELEASE.
> 

Can you clarify what you mean by the above?


> It's manpage indicates that it is unsuitable for loader(8) use,

Likewise, can you clarify the above?


> and that
> just running gzip(1) on the kernel file is sufficient;

I'm getting an error when loading a gzip(1)'d kernel...

	don't know how to load module '/kernels/GENERIC-i386-9.0.gz'

So I figure, maybe it doesn't like the '.gz' suffix. No go, same error.

Or maybe there's a special syntax to loading a gzip'd kernel? If so, that's unfortunate as no special syntax is required to execute kgzip'd kernels.

Also, kgzip produces smaller binaries than gzip when used on kernel. I'd like to see kgzip(1) functionality restored (again, it worked fine in RELENG_8).
-- 
Devin

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