From: Tomek LECOCQ <tomek.lecocq@hotmail.fr>
To: "kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: How to reverse engineer a PCI-Express driver under Linux ?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 09:18:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AD4B5CA0-0234-4332-B7B4-D8C6480BD67E@hotmail.fr> (raw)
Hello,
I have a PCI-Express video capture card that has a proprietary driver for Linux.
I have some experience with programming in C, and so I would like to start a hobby project to develop a free/libre driver for this device for Linux.
Of course I don’t have access to any documentation about how to communicate with this device, so I think I will need to reverse-engineer the way the existing driver communicates with the hardware. How could I achieve this ?
Also, the long term goal of this project would be to have this driver merged into mainline, so what is allowed or not while doing this to avoid problematic legal ramifications ?
Thank you for your help.
Best regards.
Tomek Lecocq
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2021-03-03 9:31 ` How to reverse engineer a PCI-Express driver under Linux ? Greg KH
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