WINDBG for tablet

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Hi
Is there a way to connect windbg to windows tablet for live debugging. The tablet has only a micro usb port.

Is there any possible way using Microsoft kernel debug adapter?

Thanks in advance
Midhun

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There will be *some* way of doing it, you can be sure - the engineers who created it will have needed to use it. However, they may have had access to an internal port of some kind which isn’t exposed to you as a consumer of the tablet.

USB can be used for kernel debugging, but there are conditions - the target OS has to support it, and some types of USB controller don’t support it. USB 3 should be OK, though, provided you have a sufficiently recent OS, which is likely on a tablet.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh439372.aspx describes USB 3 setup; there are linked pages describing USB2 and other types of port.

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Is there a way to connect windbg to windows tablet for live
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Is there any possible way using Microsoft kernel debug adapter?

Thanks in advance
Midhun
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xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a way to connect windbg to windows tablet for live debugging. The tablet has only a micro usb port.

Is there any possible way using Microsoft kernel debug adapter?

If the tablet is running Windows 8+, you can use Ethernet debugging.
That’s a very good path.

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