On 01/03/2009, at 7:51, Pekka Paalanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:39:06 +0100 > Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I actually wanted to ask some questions about Nouveau and the NVIDIA >> drivers. I was wondering if there would be any point in extending >> kmemcheck to track this driver's use of kernel memory. We could quite >> easily make a "memory access tracer", which would show all the memory >> access patterns of the driver's allocated memory. Not just addresses, >> but also offsets into the objects (if it was allocated with slab), >> member sizes, and also the actual bytes written. This is for >> reverse-engineering the binary blob, obviously. > > I don't think that would gain any more information about the hardware. > If we were to RE the proprietary driver, then yes, it would be useful, > but we're not. We're interested only in the hardware. > > There's also the issue, that this might be considered RE'ing the > proprietary software, and that might have legal consequences in > some countries. > > A nice idea, but IMHO not applicable. > I think it might be useful for tracking nvidia's access to bios scripts as it keeps a ram copy of bios. Dave > Thanks. > > -- > Pekka Paalanen > http://www.iki.fi/pq/ > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau