Things like 3 [main] bash 2216 child_info_fork::abort: data segment start: parent(0x26D000) != child(0x38D000) -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable It appears to be a recent Red Hat mishap. One of those bugs that happen because of the common belief that if you don’t play around with your software all the time, it will be considered [...]
Scope The WDK arrives with sample code for a PCI driver, known as PCIDRV. It demonstrates the recommended old-school methods for avoiding mishaps when maintaining your own IRP queue. Frankly speaking, I’ve written this post as I learned the different corners of IRP juggling, so pretty much like certain operating systems, it’s a bit of [...]
To make a long story short… There is really no need to work hard to make your FPGA talk with a PC. Xillybus gives you the end-to-end connection interfacing FPGAs with both Linux and Windows computers. The challenge At times, FPGA engineers are faced with the need to transfer data to or from a regular [...]
The log level is set in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\LogLevel. The key may need to be created (DWORD). The default on my computer turned out to be 0x2000ff00, which means maximal logging is achieved. The set bit 29 tells the logger not to flush data into the file after each entry (faster logging, but data [...]
If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’ve experienced a bug check (blue screen of death, BSOD, if you like) as a result of calling IoConnectInterruptEx(). It’s also likely that you used this function to support MSI (Message Signaling Interrupt). You may have attempted to follow the horribly misleading example given by Microsoft itself. The [...]