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Thank you for taking the time to provide such a thoughtful answer. I was thinking of starting on messing with hardware, you've given me thoughts of a starting p
by Bumsonfire 10y ago
Thank you for taking the time to provide such a thoughtful answer. I was thinking of starting on messing with hardware, you've given me thoughts of a starting point.
- i336_ 10y agoGreat to hear! :D Like the other commentators here I'm also curious what you've been working on. I'm very fascinated with assembly language and machine code myself and interested to get a head start with that too.
- Bumsonfire 10y agoI've been taking some firmware files apart, specifically bios files, just to try and understand better how computers work. I've also been messing about with shellcode, I find that fascinating.
- i336_ 10y agoWow, that's awesome. You've probably heard of Coreboot, an open source BIOS that's been ported to a handful of systems (230 total different configurations, along with a QEMU target for playing with). It's also the foundation of all Chromebooks. This is very short but may be fascinating reading: https://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual https://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual I'm not quite at the shellcode-comprehending stage yet, although I realize it's incredibly simple. Agh - I have a basic working knowledge of C, but nonexistent understanding of low-level hardware at this point :) https://www.nayuki.io/page/a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86-assembly-programming https://www.nayuki.io/page/a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86... has been on my to-follow-up-on list for a while, along with http://beginners.re/ http://beginners.re/. (Both found via HN)