On 8/31/07, todthgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Corey Osgood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Darmawan Salihun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "linuxbios" <linuxbios@linuxbios.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 00:07 > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [RFC] Call for Action: LinuxBIOS foundations > > > > Darmawan Salihun wrote: > >> On 8/29/07, *Uwe Hermann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >> > >> The real problems (in my view) are: > >> > >> 1. Lack of developers > >> 2. Lack of time > >> 3. Lack of proper datasheets (for some/many chipsets) > >> > >> Issue 2 cannot be solved easily, issue 3 depends on many factors > >> we usually cannot influence a lot, but issue 1 is where we can > >> get the biggest gain, IMHO. > >> > >> > >> I wonder if clean-room reverse engineering on commercial BIOS that > comes > >> with the board can help for case 3 because most of them have a > "generic" > >> code to boot the machine until preliminary RAM test. Personally, I > >> view it > >> as a *very interesting* challenge. > > > > Very interesting, yes, but that routes directly back to problem 1. More > > developers could lead the creation of a separate project with that goal > > in mind, but for now everyone's working with what they have. If we had > > more people/time, such things might be feasible and very beneficial. > > suggestion: make a tool based that emits a trace of whats going on ... > i would suggest first making a tool for extracting award flash enables.... > > -Todthgie
I think it's not too hard. I would need to create an IDA Pro plugin or IDA Python script that can search for the binary signatures that of interest. I have some preliminary code for different task that I think can be used for that once I'm working on it ;-). It may be just too premature to talk about it right now. Regards, Darmawan Salihun -------------------------------------------------------------------- -= Human knowledge belongs to the world =-
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