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markus_zhang • today at 10:21 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Thanks for sharing. Do you have any blog or other links about this kind of research and the re-writes? I don’t work in the field so I feel modern chips are way too complex so it is not commercially viable to reverse and rewrite the drivers, but apparently I’m wrong.


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0xdeafbeef • today at 10:30 AM

They often have logic in blobs and run a separate OS inside. See all wifi 7 drivers, all come with blobs and OSS driver simply is a bridge