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 Post subject: Debug mode lurking inside AMD chips
 Post Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:13 pm 
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Looks like some hardware enthusiasts have worked out a method to enable debug mode within AMD processors. The original site isn’t loading for us, but the text has been mirrored in this comment. Getting the chip into debug mode requires access passwords on four control registers. We’ve read through the writeup and it means very little to us but we didn’t pull out a datasheet to help make sense of the registers being manipulated. It shouldn’t be hard to find an old AMD system to try this out on. We’d love to hear about anything you do with this debug system.


Source: http://hackaday.com/2010/11/13/debug-mo ... amd-chips/

Now that's quite extra-ordinary! I wonder if its possible to access something like that on more processors?


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 Post subject: Re: Debug mode lurking inside AMD chips
 Post Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:11 am 
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AMD "not open source" ? :?: :lol:

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