zfs discuss - May 2007 - Re: Preparing to compare Solaris/ZFS and FreeBSD/ZFS

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> > Or if you do want to use bfu because you really want to match your
> > source code revisions up to a given day then you will need to build
the
> > ON consolidation yourself and you an the install the non debug bfu
> > archives (note you will need to download the non debug closed bins to
do
> > that).
> 
> The README.opensolaris
> (http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris)
> still states:
> 2. Non-DEBUG kernel builds have not been tested.  Systems that require
> the ata driver are known not to work with non-DEBUG  builds.
> Are debug builds now know to work?
s/debug/non-debug/

That used to be true, but is obsolete by now.
non-debug builds work just fine.  Just make sure
to use a recent on-closed-bins-nd*.tar.bz2
archive, e.g.
  http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b63/on-closed-bins-nd-b63.i386.tar.bz2


The ata driver has moved from the closed bits tree 
to the standard/open onnv source tree, so when you
compile non-DEBUG bits, you''ll also get a non-DEBUG
ata  driver compiled from source.

There used to be a problem when ata was closed, and
you tried to compile non-DEBUG opensolaris from sources
and mixed that with a DEBUG ata driver from the closed
bits archive.  That was a problem when no closed non-debug
bits (on-closed-bins-nd-*.tar.bz2) were available for download.
 
 
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