On 8/7/07, Magnus Blomfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > I have a suggestion about how to actively support > reverse engineering projects.
I think reverse engineering is important for developing a driver or any particular interface that communicates with a hardware (ie winmodems) or software. (ie. wine) But I do not believe that we should continually reverse engineer something in order for a hardware or software to work. The roots of the problem is the proprietary software, firmwares, bioses, etc. There are some FOSS drivers in the works that is not yet > suitable for Ubuntu. However helping them along the way might > get us there sooner. > > My suggestion is a program that would match the hardware a > user have with the hardware a reverse engineering project > needs information about. If it is a match the program would > ask the user if he/she wants to help the project. > > Preferably it should be simple things like taking an automatic > dump of a piece of hardware or a quick test to see if a driver > works. > > One example would be to help Nouveau[1] with cards that need > dumping. There is currently 44 up to date dumps, 105 old dumps > and 104 cards still missing. The program could have a great > impact here. > [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > > Another example would be to do a quick test to see if some > wifi or modem driver could retreive something over the net. > For instance "Can you see the picture below?". Answering yes > could send some information to the project and answering no > could also send some info to the project if the user has some > other means of connectivity. > > There are some alternatives of when the program should be run: > - Automatically for all new versions of Ubuntu > - Automatically for all betas of Ubuntu > - When the user actively wants to run it. > > It would of course be important to communicate with the reverse > engineering teams to make sure they get information they want. > > My hope is for someone to pick up this idea and make something > out of it. I think 'revenge' would make for a cute name for a > reverse engineering project, if it's not already taken. > > I realize this might not be a new idea, it might already be > implemented or it might be too much for the user to deal with. > > Sincerely > Magnus > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- "object-oriented programming is really just a common sense extension of structured programming" - Roger Sessions
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