Pete's Blog

This is a short tutorial for a sample character device module aimed at Linux kernels 2.6 and later (including 3.x and 4.x) using udev. I th...

As defined per section 7.6 of the xHCI specifications ? Unfortunately, none of the current ones from Renesas, VIA Labs or Fresco Logic do,...

If you're going to play with PCI option ROMs, you're likely to salvage a PCI Network Interface Card (NIC) with a flash ROM, or at le...

( Updated 2011.12.14 : this guide is now obsolete and has been superseded. If you want to create an MS-DOS or FreeDOS bootable USB Flash Dri...

Word of advice: if you want to play with CPU caches, and especially an L2 cache, don't use a Slot 1 Pentium III as your test system: L2 ...

Now that one of my patches has made it into the UEFI/EDK2 SVN repository, I'm going to provide a quite guide on the easiest way to crea...

Following up on the previous BIOS generation endeavour , as well as wanting to demonstrate to any naysayer that a universal recovery consol...

If you're like me, you probably have a small Linux server somewhere, begging to be used as a remote central git repository, be it only f...

Courtesy of Xiaofan . If you test driver installations quite often under Windows 7, then PnPUtil from Microsoft can be quite useful. Th...

If you are using VMware to play with virtual serial consoles on Windows, and especially if you want to have access to that console right fro...

Introduction Ideally, there would have been an entry between this one and the last , where I'd give you some pointers on how to disass...

(updated 2016.05.17 for VMWare UEFI firmware extraction) One day or another, you may want to play with BIOS/UEFI firmware modification. Bu...

From the time where printer manufacturers were still producing near indestructible models. Plus, 5 years on, and I'm still using the ton...