Re: Kernel GPL Violations and How to Research

[Gidon]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:52, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> Obfuscation can obscure the names of functions, but generally not string
> constants or the structure of functions calling other functions.

Sadly, objdump turns up nothing really interesting. The kernel image is
in i386-linux a.out format. This is all it gives me for headers:

SOME.FILE:     file format a.out-i386-linux
SOME.FILE
architecture: i386, flags 0x000001be:
EXEC_P, HAS_LINENO, HAS_DEBUG, HAS_SYMS, HAS_LOCALS, WP_TEXT, D_PAGED
start address 0x00100020
                                                                                                                                                         
Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         00079fc0  00000020  00000020  00000020  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
  1 .data         0002a000  0007a000  0007a000  00079fe0  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          00018004  000a4000  000a4000  00000000  2**2
                  ALLOC


It is easier to read some of the function names and other things using
objdump's -s option, but beyond that it's not much more useful than
strings. It appears that I will have to get medieval on it.

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