[ILUG] Reverse engineering serial protocol

[Dale Dunlea]

> > I tried placing a software spy on the windows machine but none of
> > them seem to get in at boot time before the driver device locks the 
> > port. Point taken about driver not likely being shouted at with 
> > random gibberish.
> 
> Have you considered something like qemu or bochs? Pretty sure one or 
> both of those can be pointed at the host serial device for use as 
> serial device within the hosted OS. That way you can have bochs' 
> serial driver dump out the conversation.

I hadn't actually. Sound like an interesting, if slightly involved,
method of doing it. I might give it a go over the weekend.

Regards,
Dale.