Reverse engineering

[Eric W. Biederman]

ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On Tue, 20 May 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> 
> > Is it legal to disassemble the proprietary VGA BIOS to learn how to
> > enable a particular VGA chip?
> 
> depends on what country you are in. I have no idea of the rules in Japan. 
> We have avoided doing this type of thing in the US, because we have so 
> many lawyers here looking for lawsuits to file. Even if it is legal we 
> felt it was a bad idea. 

Also it is much more productive (in general) to just look at the
registers and see how they get set.   And extrapolate the meaning of
the registers from there. 

On the same scale you can usually capture the same information
with some kind of ICE so you do not need to disassemble the code.

Eric