Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over. | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:27:21 +0000 (UTC) |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:45, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: >> Good! This means, people debugging the code have actually to think and >> don't produce "turn on debugger, step here, there, patch a band aid,
>Some of us debug hardware. Regardless of the nice theories about >reviewing your code they don't actually work on hardware because no >amount of code review will let you discover things like undocumented >2uS deskew delays, or errors in DMA engines
A debugger won't help you here either. A pci bus probe, a 'scope and a logic analyzer do.
(And experience, elbow grease, experience and a nice amount of ESP :-) I do hate hardware. Had to debug too much of it (and just on m68k/MCS-51 where the clock rates are low and the parts easy to solder...).
Regards Henning
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