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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A shot in the dark
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:31:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190805280031x17e2f483s1f82640bacd4851f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB0F927F-5E92-4A6D-94B7-2EB07F7D20C1@telus.net>

When I did the port to the PS2 there wasn't even a light to blink. To
get thru l.s I discovered a register I could write that resets the
video.

Only a hundred lines (most innocent) to binary chop.

Ken has a better tale of a device that only had a speaker and
debugging by tones.

brucee

On 5/28/08, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
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> FWIW, we used a similar technique just last summer debugging some PS3



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27 22:02 ron minnich
2008-05-27 22:54 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-27 23:00   ` ron minnich
2008-05-28  0:06   ` Digby Tarvin
2008-05-28  2:54     ` Paul Lalonde
2008-05-28  7:31       ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2008-05-28 15:49         ` Digby Tarvin
2008-05-28 18:34         ` [9fans] OT: supporting multiple VGA cards (was "A shot in the dark") Digby Tarvin
2008-05-28 19:07           ` ron minnich
2008-05-28  0:16 ` [9fans] A shot in the dark Bakul Shah
2008-05-28  0:30   ` ron minnich
2008-05-28  7:17     ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-28 15:53       ` Digby Tarvin

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