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Notes and utilities for reverse engineering JMicron's JMB585 SATA host controller.

JMB585 Reverse Engineering

The JMB585 is a PCIe Gen3x2 5-port SATA 6Gb/s host controller.

Quick start

Software dependencies

• Python 3

Procedure

1. Install dependencies.
2. Dump the flash from your JMB585 card.
3. Parse and print the configuration flash with ./dump.py ..., where ... is the name of the binary you got when you dumped your JMB585 card's flash.

Reverse engineering notes

See Notes.md.

License

Except where otherwise stated:

• All software in this repository (e.g., tools for parsing and generating flash images/configuration data, etc.) is made available under the Zero-Clause BSD (0BSD) license.
• All copyrightable content that is not software (e.g., reverse engineering notes, this README file, etc.) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.