From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263305AbVFXR33 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:29:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263396AbVFXR32 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:29:28 -0400 Received: from linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net ([66.117.45.234]:46051 "EHLO linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263305AbVFXRVD (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:21:03 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Alejandro Bonilla" To: , "'Jan Knutar'" Cc: "'Alejandro Bonilla'" , "'Yani Ioannou'" , Subject: RE: [ltp] Re: IBM HDAPS Someone interested? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:20:44 -0600 Message-ID: <001901c578e1$0ea55c60$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <1119546519.32469.17.camel@mindpipe> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Guys/Gals, Let's please NOT drop this subject... But I think we can do it somewhere else... If you are some sort of engineer, but don't have an IBM laptop. Feel free to help us. If you own a IBM laptop and care about HD APS or will get a laptop in the future with this, please continue with us. If you want to follow the project anyway, please feel free to join us. And of course. If you know about making drivers... :) don't hesitate to join us either... I created a mailing list. Let's see if we can continue with this and get HD APS to work. http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hdaps-devel Let's keep trying.... .Alejandro > > Now you're talking my language... nope, they aren't used on any of my > machines... hmm... Anyone want to lend me their Thinkpad? ;-P > > On a related note, I found it kind of depressing when I went to RE a > Windows driver, I got millions of hits on how to crack copy protection > on games, and only one guide to RE for Linux driver development: > > http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/re.html > > I'd really like to create a HOWTO, as there are some tricky aspects > (like getting your IDA Pro symbols loaded into SoftICE), and it's much > easier to find the register write routines than the document > indicates. > Just grep for "inb", "outb" and friends, most likely they each appear > exactly once. > > Of course, with IO breakpoints, you don't even have to do > that, but the > register read/write routines are a good place to work > backwards from... > > Lee