[OpenBIOS] Solaris 8 - fun with CPUs :)
Mark Cave-Ayland
mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Tue Apr 19 11:25:22 CEST 2011
On 19/04/11 07:59, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>> Hmmm. Since this was set to NULL, it was causing kadb to trap when trying to
>> allocate memory from OpenBIOS. Anyhow the parameters look pretty much like
>> obp_dumb_memalloc() except with an extra parameter probably giving the
>> alignment. So with a quick patch I can now fire up kadb like this:
>
> Great Job!
Thanks :) I thought you may be interested as I suspect your kadb-fu is
a lot stronger than mine. Having played around with kadb a short time,
I've already decided that it makes gdb look like a friendly GUI
application in comparison :O
>> Alas unfortunately I have no idea what this new mystery function is called,
>> so if anyone can come up with a more suitable name please let me know.
>
> Have you looked how the calling function is named? Maybe this could give a hint.
Alas kadb seems to jump into ufsboot in order to do the allocation
(there are some string references to just "alloc"), and ufsboot is a
stripped binary - presumably for space reasons.
ATB,
Mark.
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