Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:08:00 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: Katmai/PIII support |
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> Curious, can the instructions required to retrive the serial number be run > from userspace?
i suppose so (of course only if it's not disabled). It's a variation of CPUID, so i guess it can be. If you think about copy-protection, you definitely want to 'embedd' and inline the querying in the protected product as much as possible, which pretty much rules out system-call based approaches.
-- mingo
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