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12th November 2010, 15:09 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Hidden Debug Mode Found In AMD Processors A hidden (and hardware password protected, by means of required special values in processor registers) debug mode has been found in AMD processors, and documented by a reverse engineer called Czernobyl on the RCE Forums community today. It enables powerful hardware debugging features long longed for by reverse engineers, such as hardware data-aware conditional breakpoints, and direct hardware 'page guard'-style breakpoints. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...t+%28rdf%29%29
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13th November 2010, 16:53 | #2 |
[M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004
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| Site is offline, but not very surprising, I know retail user have been looking into this before, I remember some thinking JTAG could maybe solve their locked processor issue's |
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