Duncan Sands wrote:
I'm really not convinced about the user-mode thing unless somebody can
show me a good reason for it. Not just some "wouldn't it be nice" kind of
thing. A real, honest-to-goodness reason that we actually _want_ to see
used.
Qemu? It would be nice if emulators could directly drive hardware:
useful for reverse engineering windows drivers for example.
Duncan.
I have reverse engineered many windows drivers, and what you suggest is
not at all helpful. For reverse engineering, one wants to see what is
happening. I.e. capture all the IO, MMIO and DMA accesses.
Your suggestion bypasses this possibility.
For reverse engineering windows drivers, one puts breakpoints in the
HAL.DLL code or replaces the HAL.DLL code with a debugging version of it
while actually running windows.
Your approach runs into problems.
e.g
There is a register on the card that sets the DMA base address, but you
don't know which register this is. If you let the driver inside QEMU
write to this register, it will write values suitable for the Virtual
machine instead of values suitable to for host OS. The DMA transaction
will write all over the wrong memory location resulting in CRASH.
One might be able to get round some of these problem with a combination
of QEMU and a hacked up HAL.DLL, but it will be complicated.
James
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