Re: Encryption/Decryption on 64 bit processor

2008-02-22 Thread Binyamin Dissen
the generated assembler. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bothe

Re: Minimum pentium class machine to do kernel testing?

2008-02-11 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:53:37 +0100 "Vegard Nossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On 2/11/08, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>> I am about to do the jump and setup up a pentium type machine for linux. :>> What is the minimal configuration (proces

Minimum pentium class machine to do kernel testing?

2008-02-11 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I am about to do the jump and setup up a pentium type machine for linux. What is the minimal configuration (processor, memory, disk) to be able to run the latest and greatest, including rebuilding the kernel within a reasonable amount of time? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Basic question about IOCTL

2008-02-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
le usage) would :>be very helpful. My understanding is that it is used for any device control that isn't a read or write, such as rewind a tape, eject a CD, etc. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel

Compiling PAM modules

2008-02-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I have TAR'ed the current PAM source and want to compile a few of them. What is the proper MAKE command, and from where should it be issued? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use

How can I get an assembler definition of a structure?

2008-01-07 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I would like an assembler (or offset map) of task_struct. It is defined in sched.h with quite a few subdefinitions. How can I request this of GCC (or AS)? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should y

Re: Using OBJDUMP to get an intermixed source/object listing

2008-01-03 Thread Binyamin Dissen
ked the subfunction rather than generating linkage to the defined function. I.e., for int foo1(int bar) { return foo2(bar); } . . x = foo1(bar); The compiler generated x = foo2(bar); directly. I could not figure out how foo2 was called directly. Most impressive of

Using OBJDUMP to get an intermixed source/object listing

2008-01-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
ebug does not have the C statements intermixed. What am I missing? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother resp

Re: Easily find the source file containing an entry point

2007-12-19 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:35:36 +0100 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On 19-12-07 21:31, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>> I am looking at the kernel and I see a call to foobar. :>> How can I easily determine which source file has the foobar code? :>The easiest way

Easily find the source file containing an entry point

2007-12-19 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I am looking at the kernel and I see a call to foobar. How can I easily determine which source file has the foobar code? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package an

Re: how to know a binary or text file and show all the information in file

2007-12-19 Thread Binyamin Dissen
ol on Linux can open binary file? I am sure that many can. :>4. Is there any tool on Linux can transfer ASCII to binary and binary to ASCII? What does that mean? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Sh

Re: Generate assembly listings of the kernel

2007-12-05 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:45:18 +0100 "Vegard Nossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On Dec 5, 2007 12:41 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>> Give a Kernel source tree, how can I generate assembly listings for all or :>> part? :>> Running G

Generate assembly listings of the kernel

2007-12-05 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Give a Kernel source tree, how can I generate assembly listings for all or part? Running GCC -S against an individual module does not work - generates many compiler errors. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and ex

How to map the Kernel / determine where particular Kernel modules are loaded in memory

2007-11-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
short run). I see how to use GCC and AS to generate an assembler listing so that I can pick where I want to stop and can find the data items. The only issue remaining is to determine where the module was loaded. Any ideas? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftwa