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Re: Are BLOBs source code?



On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:17:05PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Dec 12, Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> wrote:
> 
> > A lot of these BLOBs have been identified as ARM7 code, and generally 
> > "thumb" (the 8-bit ARM instructions).
> I know of some devices (very cheap stuff, nothing fancy) which even uses
> VxWorks. This explains why it is not even possible for some
> manufacturers to open the firmwares for their devices.

Hard to believe that anything cheap could contain VxWorks :-|

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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