Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:39:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just > > > be my imagination. > > > > All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n >> 1. Can't see any use to that > > either, though. Maybe it's just there to

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just > > be my imagination. > > All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n >> 1. Can't see any use to that > either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse engineerers, or > trap memory corruption? I had seen something

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just be my imagination. All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n 1. Can't see any use to that either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse engineerers, or trap memory corruption? I had seen something like that

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:39:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just be my imagination. All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n 1. Can't see any use to that either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:29, Kyle Moffett wrote: > The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just > be my imagination. All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n >> 1. Can't see any use to that either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse engineerers, or trap

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 31, 2005, at 16:32:11, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:53:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, and (2) what the

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Lord
>Each of the first three large parts starts with this sequence of bytes Actually, the byte structure of the first 0x100 bytes of each section seems to be very similar. Some kind of header. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:53:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > I'll try loading the works into another ARM > > system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, > > and (2) what the disassembly shows. > > You can identify ARM code

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > I'll try loading the works into another ARM > system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, > and (2) what the disassembly shows. You can identify ARM code quite readily - look for a large number of 32-bit words naturally aligned

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Mmm.. curious sequence in the first 512 bytes of > the DWL-G730AP firmware binary. It has this > sequence of bytes repeated several times: > > 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 ... > > That should be recognizable to

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Lord
Mmm.. curious sequence in the first 512 bytes of the DWL-G730AP firmware binary. It has this sequence of bytes repeated several times: 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 ... That should be recognizable to somebody, I think. I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Lord
Mmm.. curious sequence in the first 512 bytes of the DWL-G730AP firmware binary. It has this sequence of bytes repeated several times: 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 ... That should be recognizable to somebody, I think. I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Mmm.. curious sequence in the first 512 bytes of the DWL-G730AP firmware binary. It has this sequence of bytes repeated several times: 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 81 40 20 10 08 04 02 ... That should be recognizable to somebody, I

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, and (2) what the disassembly shows. You can identify ARM code quite readily - look for a large number of 32-bit words naturally aligned and

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:53:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, and (2) what the disassembly shows. You can identify ARM code quite

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Lord
Each of the first three large parts starts with this sequence of bytes Actually, the byte structure of the first 0x100 bytes of each section seems to be very similar. Some kind of header. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 31, 2005, at 16:32:11, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:53:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: I'll try loading the works into another ARM system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is, and (2) what the

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-31 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:29, Kyle Moffett wrote: The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just be my imagination. All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n 1. Can't see any use to that either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse engineerers, or trap memory

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread David Lang
I've been looking into the airlink devices (fry's house brand) and they have a marvell based AP (the one that made /. a few weeks go, sells for $17 on sale). when I contacted airlink about getting the source they replaied that current versions only run in-house developed code, no eCos or

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:49:05PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > Hi! > > > > The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's > > likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. > > > > They're based on a Marvell Libertas

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's > likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. > > They're based on a Marvell Libertas AP-32 (ARM9) design, similar > to the ASUS WL-530g. A bootlog from the ASUS

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > According to http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/, it is either still RedHat > > or already transferred to the FSF. That doesn't sound like dual > > licensing, I don't think the FSF would do that... > > That was my thinking, too. eCos at least historically had other licensing options too. - To

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:56:49PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > The device's ESSID during boot is 'Marvell AP-32', and the Libertas > > AP-32 and AP-52 design toolkits contain only ports of Linux and eCos to > > the device, according to Marvell. Considering the device's routing > > capabilities

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:18:10PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > If it is from the ASUS, what makes you think that the D-Link runs the > > same OS? It is quite often the case that one chipset design has > > multiple operating systems ported to it (you see systems with the same > > broadcom

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:19:59PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's > > likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. > > *lol*. Interestingly they must have twiddled the IP stack since when I > tried an

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's > likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. *lol*. Interestingly they must have twiddled the IP stack since when I tried an

APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. They're based on a Marvell Libertas AP-32 (ARM9) design, similar to the ASUS WL-530g. A bootlog from the ASUS (which has telnet enabled for some

APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. They're based on a Marvell Libertas AP-32 (ARM9) design, similar to the ASUS WL-530g. A bootlog from the ASUS (which has telnet enabled for some

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. *lol*. Interestingly they must have twiddled the IP stack since when I tried an

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:19:59PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. *lol*. Interestingly they must have twiddled the IP stack since when I tried an nmap

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:18:10PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: If it is from the ASUS, what makes you think that the D-Link runs the same OS? It is quite often the case that one chipset design has multiple operating systems ported to it (you see systems with the same broadcom or

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:56:49PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: The device's ESSID during boot is 'Marvell AP-32', and the Libertas AP-32 and AP-52 design toolkits contain only ports of Linux and eCos to the device, according to Marvell. Considering the device's routing capabilities I'm

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
According to http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/, it is either still RedHat or already transferred to the FSF. That doesn't sound like dual licensing, I don't think the FSF would do that... That was my thinking, too. eCos at least historically had other licensing options too. - To

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. They're based on a Marvell Libertas AP-32 (ARM9) design, similar to the ASUS WL-530g. A bootlog from the ASUS (which has

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:49:05PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. They're based on a Marvell Libertas AP-32 (ARM9)

Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

2005-08-30 Thread David Lang
I've been looking into the airlink devices (fry's house brand) and they have a marvell based AP (the one that made /. a few weeks go, sells for $17 on sale). when I contacted airlink about getting the source they replaied that current versions only run in-house developed code, no eCos or