From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Need some reverse engineering effort.
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5735FA0E.1070004@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACW9AP49qOSXQ8tNpdoJvk-0u0nprdq2QsVE7JqrM8VKSuMqeg@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/13/2016 08:30 AM, Nirav Patel wrote:
> Tired of resending email due to HTML text error. Anyway now back to the subject:
>
> I have found some linux binaries for the wl (apsta) driver which can
> be easily reverse engineered.
> http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src#linux/universal/linux-4.4/brcm/arm
> This contains the arm binaries. Look for other binaries here
> http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src#linux/universal
> in this way: Browse the desired linux version (mips binaries are only
> in linux 2.x which are probably outdated) > brcm > architecture
> (probably arm or mipsel) > wl
> Since the binaries are almost separate for each file they can be
> easily reverse engineered.
> It seems that Hex-rays IDA (sadly so costly) would easily decompile as
> well as disassemble them.
>
> @Larry Can you please reverse engineer these binaries and upload the
> specs to the website?
> It would be of great help for b43 development. Thanks in advance.
If those binaries are so easily reverse engineered, I suggest you do them
yourself. I used to do that, but I now have other responsibilities that occupy
my time.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-13 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 13:30 Need some reverse engineering effort Nirav Patel
2016-05-13 16:00 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2016-05-14 14:58 ` Nirav Patel
2016-05-14 19:04 ` Larry Finger
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2016-05-15 23:46 Nirav Patel
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