I'm back at considering working on a driver for the Canoscan 8400f. I have been requested by another developer to help do this. I have the Mac driver. Mac, if I remember it is *nix based now. What is the take on driver writing in regards to RE drivers to implement drivers? Has anyone ever decompiled OSX drivers? What would be a recommended decompiler? I do not have any MAcs so could never install the driver and run it, but the Canoscan 8400f is a fairly complex and high end scanner. I'd like to make a Linux driver that supports 100% of the features. Is it a taboo to decompile drivers for making Linux drivers? Or for getting over stumbling blocks? Is doing blackbox RE the only acceptable method of RE for Linux drivers? Would Sane accept my code if I decompiled the driver? Copyright issues? There shouldn't be any, since I'll not be seeing actual original source code.
Thanks, Brian
