* gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility
@ Gregory Nowak
` Joseph C. Lininger
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From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all.
Does anybody know of a processor serial number control utility for
gnu/linux like what Intel has for windblows? I'm talking about a
program here that would either enable or disable the cpu showing its
serial number. Yes, I know some bioses can control that, thus making
the utility program to do this superfluous, but the bios in this case
doesn't have that option. I did check freshmeat, but no luck. Thanks
in advance.
Greg
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* Re: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility
gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility Gregory Nowak
@ ` Joseph C. Lininger
` Gregory Nowak
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From: Joseph C. Lininger @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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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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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility
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> Hi all.
>
> Does anybody know of a processor serial number control utility for
> gnu/linux like what Intel has for windblows? I'm talking about a
> program here that would either enable or disable the cpu showing its
> serial number. Yes, I know some bioses can control that, thus making
> the utility program to do this superfluous, but the bios in this case
> doesn't have that option. I did check freshmeat, but no luck. Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Greg
>
>
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` Joseph C. Lininger
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` Joseph C. Lininger
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From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
> --
> 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@pcdesk.net
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` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Joseph C. Lininger
` Gregory Nowak
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From: Joseph C. Lininger @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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.
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Joseph C. Lininger
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility
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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.
>> --
>> 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@pcdesk.net
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` Joseph C. Lininger
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` Joseph C. Lininger
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From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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Ok, thanks. I'll put the investigation of this on my ever growing to
do list. If I do manage to put something together that can control the
cpu serial number display from the console, I'll post on it.
Greg
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:02:06PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> 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.
> --
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> experience is worth nothing.
>
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm@pcdesk.net
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` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Joseph C. Lininger
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From: Joseph C. Lininger @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Greg,
If you can't actually write the program, I would be more than happy to
do it. All you would have to do would be to provide me with the correct
instruction or sequence of instructions for the CPU. I can then write
the actual program to actually give those instructions.
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Ok, thanks. I'll put the investigation of this on my ever growing to
> do list. If I do manage to put something together that can control the
> cpu serial number display from the console, I'll post on it.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:02:06PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
>> 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@pcdesk.net
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