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From: Yannick Chamming's [eMVP] (ychammings_nospam_at_adeset.com)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:51:23 +0100

if you don't have any way to rebuild your driver for x86 target, there is no
other way than using an ARM based platform : the ARM binary code won't be
runnable on anything else than ARM core.

Concerning the requirement of having the exact platform, what Dean meant is
that the fact that your driver would run (or not run) on an ARM platform
does not mean that it will run (or not run) on your specific targeted
platform : example : your driver might use isochronous transfer, which is
not necessary handled by USB driver of all platforms 

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"wilsonwang" <wilsonidv@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#TD$zI#4EHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi, you all meant that the only way I can verify the ARM based driver is
to
> get an actual ARM platform, and must be the same as the driver built from.
> Right?
>
> No substitution or simulation that I can make use of on x86 PC?
>
> Thank you.
>
> "Wilson" <wilsonidv@hotmail.com> ¦b¶l¥ó
> news:uetkF6z4EHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl ¤¤¼¶¼g...
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I've the USB Driver which was compiled under ARM platform from our
> customer.
> > But, in our office, we only have x86 system(PC). We cannot verify if the
> > driver can be installed and worked correctly.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea about that?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Wilson Wang
> >
> >
>
>

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