RE: want to be a hardware developer ?

SoftIce has watchpoints.  If you're debugging
a video driver it may help to do remote debugging.
A null modem connection between two PCs is the easiest
to set up SoftIce for remote debugging.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Wexelblat
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:24 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [forum] want to be a hardware developer ?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sven Luther
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:48 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [forum] want to be a hardware developer ?
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:54:38PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> > >      * Port it to Windows. You can use hws_win from
> > >        http://gatos.sf.net/apps.php for direct access to 
> > >        memory mapped hardware (this is windows port of
> > >        hw_script - though PCI id scanning is not supported yet).
> > 
> > Hey, do you pre chance know of a windows tool to snoop what a
> > particular driver writes to the register aperture ?
> > 
> 
> I THINK you can do this with SoftICE from CompuWare:
> http://www.compuware.com/products/driverstudio/ds/softice.htm
> 
> This is the tool that most of the driver-writers that I've 
> worked with use.
> But I've never worked with people doing Windows video drivers.
> 
> I've never played with modern video hardware at this level on 
> Windows (I
> wrote some stuff to do this back in "the day" on Win31 and 
> Win95, but that
> was port probing/tracking, mot memory mapped registers).
> 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> 
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