The specs are definitely open, unless intel has undocumented instructions. If you go to intel's web site, you can download processor documentation. One of the parts has information about supported instructions and how they work. -- A man is a fool if he has forgotten what it was to be young, as his experience is worth nothing. Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:21 PM Subject: Re: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joseph, > > a good idea. However, I don't know if the specs I'd need are open, and > I myself don't know x86 assembly at this time, though I do want to > learn it in the future. > > Greg > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:12:00PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: >> Greg, >> I don't know of such a program, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to >> write such an animal if one wanted to do so. I imagine it's just an >> instruction or sequence of instructions that you pass to the CPU to >> instruct it to disable this feature. Then as long as the kernel or some >> other program doesn't reenable it, it would stay disabled. You'd probably >> have to write it in asembly though, as the C functions don't provide >> access >> to that. >> -- >> A man is a fool if he has forgotten what it was to be young, as his >> experience is worth nothing. >> >> Joseph C. Lininger >> jbahm at pcdesk.net >> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFB9btA7s9z/XlyUyARArSSAKDFY8Ip2sLRKC8bsO2pq5dh8eVMjwCfS/dM > M/LN43tuZs46JzAOq3wf68U= > =7SCF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
