Saturday, September 3, 2011
Rebuild of ntmio
I have been using ntmio for many years. I have just rebuild this tool to add a better support for 64 bit OS and some more features. ntmio.exe command is a user mode program. It is not allowed to access the hardware resources in the user mode. In order to perform those privileged operations the ntmio.exe program calls an underlying kernel driver: WINMIO.
Initially ntmio was using a kernel driver called OSAL from Thierry Vuillaume with STM. I enhanced OSAL to support 64 bit OS. However I recently came across the WINIO drivers from Yariv Kaplan with internal.com. I found the code of WINIO is more up to date. With the permission of Yariv, I have modified the driver with finer granularity sizes and access to some CPU registers. The result is called WINMIO for WINdows Memory and IO. The new user application ntmio.exe has version 200 and up. It loads the WINMIO driver during runtime.
Get MMIO base
Another snippet
The calling batch file, gets the MMIO base and adds an offset
echo getting the MMIO base add set add= call get_MMIO_base.bat add hex %add% 2AC call setvar echo. set add=%HEXRET%
The code in get_MMIO_base.bat
@echo off ntmio i w 8 cd6 24 ntmio i r 8 cd7 k fe call setvar set b0=%NTREAD% ntmio i w 8 cd6 25 ntmio i r 8 cd7 call setvar set b1=%NTREAD% ntmio i w 8 cd6 26 ntmio i r 8 cd7 call setvar set b2=%NTREAD% ntmio i w 8 cd6 27 ntmio i r 8 cd7 call setvar set b3=%NTREAD% echo MMIO base is %b3%%b2%%b1%%b0% set %1=%b3%%b2%%b1%%b0%
Get a base address from BAR
Here a sample code to get a base address from a PCI BAR register.
Calling program
set EHCI_BASE=0 ::EHCI_BASE = contents of pciconfig - Bus 0 device 18 function 2 register 10h call get_EHCI_BASE_base EHCI_BASE echo EHCI_BASE is %EHCI_BASE%
get_EHCI_BASE_base implementation in the file get_EHCI_BASE_base.bat
@echo off ntmio p r 32 80009210 k fffffff8 > nul call setvar set %1=%NTREAD%
Simple loop with hex index
This is the same as the simple loop but the index is in Hexadecimal. It uses a small program hex.exe to increment the index.
@echo off set count=0 :debut echo address is DF0F000%count% :: put your code here hex %count% 1 call setvar echo. set count=%HEXRET% if %count%.==10. goto the_end goto debut :the_end
Simple loop
I use this snippet frequently.
@echo off set count=0 :debut echo loop# %count% :: put your code here set /a count=%count% +1 if %count%.==100. goto the_end goto debut :the_end