On 09/15/2012 01:26 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > If there will be a well-designed and/or inexpensive hardware with this > chipset, it'll likely get reverse-engineered. Years ago I worked on an in-circuit test for a device called a bus monitor chip. It was supposed to be able to monitor memory and IO read and writes, and store a count of accesses to a certain address, or just look for and access in a certain range, and store it and generate an interrupt. The chip hadn't gotten to the point where it had full data sheet functionality, but in theory would have made watching to see how the other operating system did things a lot easier.
These days, I would guess that all that could be put into an FPGA and designed into a PCIX card. Could probably even have a serial port to a terminal to let another computer log all the interesting memory accesses. If it came time to pull the gloves off, I'd bet there are plenty of Linux guys (and girls) out there who would be able to figure out the hardware that way. Intel might not care if independently a Linux distro came out designed for those devices, as long as they had nothing to do with it.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
