NetBSD Problem Report #38583

From martin@duskware.de  Sun May  4 10:29:43 2008
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Date: Sun,  4 May 2008 01:51:03 +0000 (UTC)
From: ad@netbsd.org
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Subject: Kernel objects that are too large to be in wired memory
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>Number:         38583
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Kernel objects that are too large to be in wired memory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 04 10:30:01 +0000 2008
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jul 17 21:50:45 +0000 2020
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 17 21:50:45 +0000 2020
>Originator:     Andrew Doran
>Release:        4.99.62
>Organization:
The NetBSD Project
>Environment:
amd64
>Description:
I'm guessing that there are firmware images embedded in these objects:

-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff    84888 May  2 23:55 if_txp.o
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   122640 May  2 23:53 aic7xxx.o
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   141704 May  2 23:54 if_bnx.o
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   159080 May  2 23:54 cz.o
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   166216 May  2 23:54 if_atu.o
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   187920 May  2 23:53 aic79xx.o
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   263000 May  2 23:53 athhal.o

>How-To-Repeat:
Notice that kernels are getting fat.
>Fix:
Shrink the firmare, load at runtime, or take a Linux idea and jettison 
unneeded data when up and running (seems unworkable for us).

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: jdolecek@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:50:45 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Won't fix for now. Something can be done if this ever becomes a real
problem.


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