2011-10-25

Building and running Clang static-analyzer on Windows/MinGW

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With the Clang static-analyzer becoming more and more popular these days, MinGW users on Windows might be looking for some way to also brin...
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2011-10-14

On Windows 8 and WCID devices

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With the 1.2.0 release of libwdi , which, for those who don't know, is a library aimed at making the installation of Windows USB drivers...
2011-10-12

Avoiding Program Compatibility Assistant warnings on Windows

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If you're developing applications on Windows Vista or later, you may end up in a situation where this rather annoying little fellow pops...
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2011-10-03

Flashing a NEC/RENESAS USB 3.0 uPD720200/uPD720200A firmware

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It looks like NEC/Renesas are releasing steady releases of their popular USB 3.0 controllers drivers and firmwares. In case you have such a ...
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2011-08-22

Writing a Linux device driver module for kernels 2.6 or later with udev

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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...
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2011-08-12

Which controllers support USB 3.0 Debug?

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As defined per section 7.6 of the xHCI specifications ? Unfortunately, none of the current ones from Renesas, VIA Labs or Fresco Logic do,...
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2011-08-09

Enabling option ROM and flashing gPXE on an SMC 1211

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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...
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2011-08-08

USB_DOS: The (once) easiest way to create a DOS bootable USB stick on Windows

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( Updated 2011.12.14 : this guide is now obsolete and has been superseded.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...
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2011-08-03

UBRX - L2 cache as instruction RAM (CAiR)

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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 ...
2011-07-15

Creating a bootable UEFI DUET USB stick

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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...
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2011-07-11

Introducing UBRX - an Universal BIOS Recovery Console for x86 PCs

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Following up on the previous BIOS generation endeavour , as well as wanting to demonstrate to any naysayer that a universal recovery consol...
2011-07-07

git remote repository

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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...
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2011-07-03

Windows driver utilities and other good stuff

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Courtesy of Xiaofan . If you test driver installations quite often under Windows 7, then PnPUtil from Microsoft can be quite useful. Th...
2011-07-01

com0com signed drivers

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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...
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2011-06-08

Crafting a BIOS from scratch

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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...
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