gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Mon Jan 24 22:21:36 EST 2005


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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.
> --
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> experience is worth nothing.
> 
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
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