Stephen Frost writes: > Of course it could. Writing an assembler would probably take some > serious effort too without knowing that information. To some extent > that's my point- are we going to require hardware specifications for > anything that uses firmware? Personally I don't think we need to, or > should. If we don't have the hardware specifications though, there's > really not much use to having the assembly for the firmware that runs on > that hardware.
Sure there is. Having the binary and the assembly would reveal enough information to to write an assembler; it would reveal roughly what the opcodes did and how to program for it. It would be a lot easier to make changes to the firmware once that information had been revealed. It could provide a good start on a full reverse engineering of the hardware. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
