obpsym — OpenBoot Firmware Kernel Symbolic Debugging
Synopsis
modload -p misc/obpsym
Description
obpsym is a kernel module that installs OpenBoot callback handlers that provide kernel symbol information to OpenBoot. OpenBoot firmware user-interface commands use the callbacks to convert numeric addresses to kernel symbol names for display purposes and to convert kernel symbol names to numeric literals allowing symbolic names to be used as input arguments to user-interface commands.
Once obpsym is installed, you can use kernel symbolic names anywhere at the OpenBoot firmware's user-interface command prompt in place of a literal (numeric) string. For example, if obpsym is installed, the OpenBoot firmware commands ctrace and dis typically display ...
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