An idea for some future point : provide for FreeBSD-kernel-generic-debug installs to help debug 15.?-RELEASE problems without software builds
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:44:03 UTC
[I well realize the the below idea does not fit with
the 15.0-RELEASE schedule. I'm thinking longer term.]
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest/
has *.pkg for various kernels, one also
in some *.iso and *.img distributions, here
showing ALPHA2 notation, just for
illustration:
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-dbg-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
Note: The above pair is in the likes of *boot1.iso*
*dvd1.iso* and *memstick.img* . The below 2 pairs
are not.
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-mmccam-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-mmccam-dbg-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
FreeBSD-kernel-minimal-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
FreeBSD-kernel-minimal-dbg-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
The idea is to at some point start to enable
users gathering debug information to some degree
using a pre-built pkgbase GENERIC-DEBUG kernel
that they could pkg install and then use via a
reboot:
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-debug-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-debug-dbg-15.0.a2.2025*.pkg
( Based on same /usr/src/sy/s and /usr/src/ code
as the matching: FreeBSD-kernel-generic{,-dbg} .)
Thus it would not be necessary for someone to
build a kernel.GENERIC-DEBUG kernel to see if such
a kernel would report something interesting
related to some problem that was happening. This
is biased to preliminary information that does not
involve needing to be based on adjusted source
code.
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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com