Reverse engineering

[Adam Sulmicki]

> > If you are only interested in those IO ports, an logic analyzer is
> > probably better and easier to use. Modern LA can be programmed to
> > log/filter various IO scenario.
>
> It's probably a bit expensive to buy an LA or ICE or any other specialised
> hardware just to get a board going. So I thought it might be possible to use
> Bochs to do the job instead. But maybe I'm mistaken.

The problem with bochs is that it is not just "any hardware" but they
attempt to emulate Intel 440LX (IIRC). So if you put here an standard bios
I would expect it to complain a lot.

Of course it is still better than nothing and I believe there are people
on the list which went this track before. Actualy it was other way around
with getting LinuxBIOS bios to run under BOCHS IIRC.

While I myself hadn't used BOCHS to this purpose I have used Wine on
regular basic, and I was able to *easily* track IO ports for communication
between ChipWriter software and the ChipWriter hardware itself.

Just my two bits.

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