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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Oded Shimon <ods15@ods15.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RivaFB and GeForce FX
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:01:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101592907.15635.5.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411242347.07911.ods15@ods15.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 23:47 +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> I'm currently working on getting complete support for Geforce FX for RivaFB.

> The 
> only working reference I have for that though is the binary, closed source, 
> official Nvidia X module.
> 

> I would like some advice 
> about what actions I should take next in getting more complete support.

Are you asking "how do I reverse engineer a binary driver"?  One method
is to run it under an emulator, and capture the PCI bus traffic.  Then
there are tried and true methods like IDA Pro.

Lee



  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-27 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-24 21:47 Oded Shimon
2004-11-27 22:01 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-11-27 22:43   ` Oded Shimon
     [not found] <1109890416.6974.12.camel@host-172-19-5-120.sns.york.ac.uk>
2005-03-03 23:03 ` Oded Shimon
2005-03-03 23:03   ` Oded Shimon
2005-03-05 11:53 Alan Jenkins
     [not found] ` <f470889705030505089a4d8df@mail.gmail.com>
2005-03-05 15:57   ` Alan Jenkins
     [not found]     ` <1110043216.6780.14.camel@host-172-19-5-120.sns.york.ac.uk>
2005-03-05 21:14       ` Alan Jenkins

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