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This morning, I walked up to my mirror and did the usual routine:

"Mirror, mirror upon the wall: Who is the geekiest of them all?"
And the mirror replied:
"Oh Alex Geek, though geeky ye be, fuzic is geekier far to see
Over the hills and far away, he built a freaking jet-engine today:"

Not sure if anybody but me needs that, but I find the setup time for Kernel Debugging quite taxing. So, to make life a little easier, I made the following startup script on my target machine:

#!/bin/sh
KitPath="$HOME/KernelDebugKit/"
address=`/usr/sbin/kextstat | perl -ne 'if (m/(0x\w+)\s+0x\w+\s+0x\w+\s+com\.apple\.iokit\.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily/) { print "$1\n"} ' `

/sbin/kextload -c -e -k "${KitPath}mach_kernel" -n -z -r "${KitPath}" -a com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily@$address -s /tmp/ ~/KernelDebugKit/IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext

scp /tmp/com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.sym DEBUGMACHINE.local:/tmp/

This script will find the load address and generate the symbols from the IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily and push them onto my debugging machine for gdb. The script is quick and dirty, but maybe it is of use to someone

A friend of mine has managed to get his music published on the iTunes Store!

I think that is big news, and you should go an check it out: Cathedrale Sainte-Marie EP

Way to go Thom!

While I was debugging my driver, I found out that you can raise the verbosity of the IOKit. As I did not find this tip documented anywhere on the Web, I thought I share it with you.

Many parts of the IOKit check the variable gIOKitDebug for certain bits, and log accordingly.

Wir sollten auch ein offizielles OSXEntwicklerforum.de Treffen veranstalten, ich habe im Forum ja schon Vorschläge gemacht: Montag Abend, 20:30, und wahrscheinlich ist das Chevy's die beste Idee.

Wer kommen will kann ja an diesen Beitrag einen Kommentar (am besten mit eMail) anhängen.

Now that just a year has passed, here is a new entry!

I will be attending the Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2007 in San Francisco, arriving June 8th and staying till June 16th.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in San Francisco in that timeframe, just drop me a note.

Especially for this event I have added a new category, I which I and members of the German OSX Entwicklerforum might post some entries.

If you would like to post entries in that categorie, just let me know.