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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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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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