[LinuxBIOS] disassembly of bios code

Peter Karlsson petekarl at student.chalmers.se
Tue Feb 21 19:47:02 CET 2006


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> one tip: I don't want any code that you can't document back to the
> chipset documents you have. In particular, I don't want anything that
> comes from disassembled bios code. We're worked very hard, and
> succeeded, at keeping the linuxbios code base clean; I want to keep it
> that way.

But what about reverse-engineering the chips (in whatever way) and 
documenting it, and then contributing this documentation instead of code 
(a.k.a. clean-room engineering)?

Best regards

Peter K





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