LG violates gpl? take 2

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 23:28:26 CET 2010


Hi Luca,

> > If the two binaries are out of sync, then the number of lines from
> > `cmp -l' can be misleading.  Have you tried
> > 
> >     hex() { hexdump -ve '/1 "%x\n"' "$@"; }
> >     diff <(hex image_from_tv.vmlinuz) <(hex vmlinuz.config-flash) | less
> > 
> > and see on what scale those differences are?  Also, the location of
> > a difference may mean you can investigate more and see it's due to
> > object foo.o.
> 
> I piped that to a simple python script that counts the differences
> (how many times the difference has substituted "from" bytes with "to"
> bytes), and, while the result is not as dramatic, it still points to a
> significant difference:

I don't think it's very meaningful?  Due to size changes, addresses and
offsets may change on a wide scale?

> from 1 to 1: 24924
> from 2 to 2: 14199
> from 3 to 3: 171
> from 680 to 0: 1

These four are odd?

Cheers,
Ralph.





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