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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
	John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:19:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113581968.22320.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970504150906e821374@mail.gmail.com>

> I still don't think they would lose out by much.. I've just being
> trying to RE the ATI Mpeg2 IDCT/MC hardware, ATI know this, I know
> this, they are only wasting my time and my employers money (we still
> are going to buy their chips... no choice..) will they give out specs
> .. no .. why? cause of lawyers.. they use MPEG2 decoders for DVD
> decode and some lawyer told them this is a major secret despite the
> fact that everyone knows how to decode Mpeg2 and DVDs at this stage..
> 
> same story with VIA who persist on giving out a binary only blob for
> MPEG2 hardware despite the fact that it was RE'ed over two years ago..
> the secret is out...

When I was RE the ATI IDCT stuff a few years ago, someone at ATI told
me that the problem was that the company they licensed the IDCT stuff
from wouldn't let them give out any specs.  I may be remembering this
wrong since it was a long time ago...

Duncan.

PS: At some point I changed hardware, and didn't need the IDCT anymore.
I just tried to find my notes on it, but there only seems to be some
stuff about the tv tuner...


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-15 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-12  9:34 Exploit in 2.6 kernels John M Collins
2005-04-12 12:24 ` Baruch Even
2005-04-12 15:00   ` John M Collins
2005-04-12 21:08     ` Chris Wright
2005-04-12 21:32       ` John M Collins
2005-04-13  5:28         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-13  9:47         ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-13 12:59           ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 13:06             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-13 13:23               ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 14:01                 ` John M Collins
2005-04-16  2:32                   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-13 15:22                 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-14 14:01                   ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-20 18:17                     ` nVidia stuff again Doug Ledford
2005-04-20 23:12                       ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-21 11:23                         ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-21 12:15                         ` Doug Ledford
2005-04-21 12:54                           ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-21 13:35                           ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-21 14:43                             ` Manu Abraham
2005-04-21 21:17                               ` J.A. Magallon
2005-04-22 14:44                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-15 15:00                 ` Exploit in 2.6 kernels Alan Cox
2005-04-15 16:06                   ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-15 16:19                     ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2005-04-14 12:46             ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-05 22:00               ` Olaf Titz
2005-04-13 13:02         ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 14:26           ` Eric Rannaud
2005-04-13 14:41             ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-14 20:02               ` Greg Folkert
2005-04-14 22:27                 ` John M Collins
2005-05-09 18:37     ` Alessandro Salvatori

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