[linux-dvb] Re: Snooping Windows drivers

[Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@pobox.com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 11:26 +0100, Soyeb Aswat wrote:
> 
> This may be a long shot, but does anyone know of a
> program that will dump what a Windows PCI driver (vxd)
> is doing in terms of reads and writes to the card it
> is a driver for?  I want to get a driver working for
> the KWorld card in the absence of help from KWorld. 
> And I'm not keen on disassembling the driver which is
> probably illegal anyway.

Pci snooping is not easy, but you might try using the ICE kernel
debugger. Some tips here; http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/development.html

If there are closed source drivers for linux, you might try using user
mode linux, see http://www.directfb.org/mailinglists/directfb-
dev/2003/10-2003/msg00056.html

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Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@pobox.com>