Need some reverse engineering effort.

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Fri May 13 09:00:14 PDT 2016


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 in linux 2.x which are probably outdated) 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





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