Subject: Re: What happened to autobuild?
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/18/1997 20:21:40
Hello Rob,

Sorry for being so late with my answer, I had some reports to write
before
their deadline...

In message <9710071802.ZM19544@picasso.me.ic.ac.uk> you wrote:

> Do you know whether the output of ecinfo can be used without
falling foul
> of any anti-reverse-engineering legislation (in any country)?

Ecinfo only uses two SWIs to get hold of the information, these are
Podule_ReadInfo and Podule_SetSpeed.
If this can be called reverse-engineering, I'm seriously confused.
To my understanding, all this program does with podules is to find
out some of their characteristics that can be obtained relatively easily. It
does not do any reverse-engineering of the podule's firmware.
I'm not sure if this is enough information though.

Ecinfo was written and posted to this mailinglist by Daniel Blueman
(5DBLUEMAN@qeliz.ac.uk) in message
<c=GB%a=_%p=Queen_Elizabeth_%l=QUEENELIZA/WEB/00002820@webserv1.qeliz.
ac.uk>
on June 3, 1997 with the subject "Expansion card info".
I can repost it if this is wanted, but it should be easy to find in
one of
the mailing-list archives.

So long, Markus