Kernel symbol file alternate location

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 06/08/2010, at 2:38, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel
>> is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with
>> the symbol files it is not possible.
> 
> I think a very simple solution would be to install the symbol
> files elsewhere (probably configurable via make.conf), and
> install symlinks in the kernel directory.  If you do this,
> tools using the symbol files won't have to be changed.
> 
> This would probably be a fairly trivial change to the install-
> kernel target, I guess.  I don't have patches, though.

Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what it will break :)

The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so it tells gdb where to find the symbols.

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