xserver: Branch 'master' - 2 commits

Roland Scheidegger sroland at tungstengraphics.com
Thu Oct 16 06:20:01 PDT 2008


On 16.10.2008 06:40, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> Aaron Plattner escreveu:
>> As for the NVIDIA driver, you can use nm -D on it to see which symbols it's
>> linked against.  Also, I have a list of the strings we pass to LoaderSymbol
>> at http://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/loadersymbol
>> It was a bit out of date, so I updated it.
> 
> disassemble the proprietary driver would not be illegal?

Without discussing the general usefulness of these functions or
discussing the legal-ness of disassembling (which might be a complicated
matter), why do you need to disassemble the driver if you just want to
know which symbols it's linked against?

Roland



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