{"id":475,"date":"2008-09-20T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","slug":"kernel-debugging-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/kernel-debugging-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernel Debugging Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned this the hard way yesterday. (Namely by running around the building borrowing parts from co-workers and trying various combinations until finally hitting on the solution&#8230;):<\/p>\n<p>When kernel debugging (KD or WinDbg) over Firewire (IEEE 1394), it is <strong>essential<\/strong> to have a high-quality cable.\u00a0 The cable should not be any longer than necessary, and should use heavier gauge wire than those cheap cables that you get for free with a firewire card or camera.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the speed of firewire debugging &gt;&gt; the speed of serial debugging, so in spite of the strict requirements, it&#8217;s very much worth the effort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned this the hard way yesterday. (Namely by running around the building borrowing parts from co-workers and trying various combinations until finally hitting on the solution&#8230;): When kernel debugging (KD or WinDbg) over Firewire (IEEE 1394), it is essential to have a high-quality cable.\u00a0 The cable should not be any longer than necessary, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[38,41,52,53,70,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}