Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge
Stephen Frost wrote:
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> That's what I'm contending. For compressed PCF or truetype fonts I'd be
> more inclined to say that's the 'preferred form for modification'. I'm
> less inclined to say the same about firmware and a hex editor though not
> entirely opposed to it either. Especially if the firmware is just
> assembled assembly for a specific processor that could be disassembled.
> I'm not very familiar with firmware though, is virtually all firmware
> compiled C code or is alot of it assembly or what?
It's very specific to the hardware. Remember that firmware is just software
for a chipset on a peripheral; depending on the chipset and the
programmers, it varies a lot. A fair amount is assembly; for some
examples, see the assembly present for the firmware which *has* source in
the kernel (most of it requires the 'as31' assembler).
Some of it looks for all the world like ELF or COFF binaries. Other parts
look quite different.
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