From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261357AbUK0WoE (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:44:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261360AbUK0WoE (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:44:04 -0500 Received: from 80.178.41.228.forward.012.net.il ([80.178.41.228]:32682 "EHLO linux15") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261357AbUK0WoC (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:44:02 -0500 From: Oded Shimon To: Lee Revell Subject: Re: RivaFB and GeForce FX Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:43:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200411242347.07911.ods15@ods15.dyndns.org> <1101592907.15635.5.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1101592907.15635.5.camel@krustophenia.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-8-i" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411280043.49494.ods15@ods15.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 28 November 2004 00:01, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. > Well, I was sort of hoping there might be something better/easier than working on the binary driver (which btw is illegal.. oh well :). Like I said I know very little about kernel hacking, this is really my first experience with it ever. I know simple wrapper C, I'm new at low level programming. I have heard of IDA Pro, its a disassembler to COBOL, right? If I go down the emulator idea, how do I do that?... could you give me a good starting point to continue from or link me to a good guide?... - ods15