Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Lee Revell
2005-12-06T19:37:03Z

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Let's hope the rev-eng people do it the right way, by having one team
> write a document, and a totally separate team write the driver from
> that document.
>

Isn't it also legal for a single person or team to capture all IO
to/from the device with a bus analyzer or kernel debugger and write a
driver from that, as long as you don't disassemble the original driver?

Lee