Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
On 8/31/07, Fredrik Tolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 08:40 -0400, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
Time to disassemble someone's BIOS code and find out? :)
Just for the sake of trying, I attempted to extract the BIOS of one of
my nVidia cards, but I failed. `lspci -v' says the following:
I see that Tom Sylla answered your main question.
I probably shouldn't have suggested reverse engineering someone's
BIOS. I don't know the laws about that, and information acquired this
way must be handled very carefully. WE have to be especially careful,
because the OGP could be damaged by even false legal claims of us
stealing someone's intellectual property.
If you do that in Slovakia (central europe) then such an action is
totally legal and it is one of the exceptions given by law - "reverse
engineer someone's code to ensure compatibility". To follow that law, we
could reverse engineer only a PC BIOS, or let the linux-bios people
reverse engineer a VGA BIOS (the next paragraph in the law forbids RE
for competitive purposes - e.g. OGP looking at NV vga bios, etc).
Anyway, anybody asked linux-bios if they know the answer we're seeking?
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