On August 8, 2025 12:33:14 AM GMT-03:00, Sam James <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >FWIW, as a source-based distro, we'd love to have BTF-only be quite >cheap, because right now, having DWARF makes it challenging for us to >enable it by default as users build on a range of different hardware and >the increased size of the unstripped vmlinux binary plus build-time >requirements doesn't make it worth it. > >(Not every distro is building once and shipping to many and has the >luxury of stripping out components ;)) That is so cool, to have feedback from distros at this stage! Myself, I think this is interesting as putting the stepping stones for allowing the selection of features that may affect build time, disk space used at build time and in the resulting deliverables. I think that a DWARF-less system is something desirable in some cases, so worth supporting. With sframe, ORC, BTF and hardware alternatives, when available and usable, such as the various things called LBR, and Intel PT subsets, ditto for arm's coresight, etc, DWARF support can in some cases be disabled, and sometimes this may be wanted or useful, so should be an option. >Thanks for working on this. Glad you find it useful, - Arnaldo
