[alsa-devel] mixartloader/miXart8.elf lacks full RELRO, PIE and is unstripped
Hi!
I'm (currently) packaging alsa-firmware for Arch Linux and ran across the mixartloader/miXart8.elf, which turns out to be lacking full RELRO [1], PIE [2] and being unstripped.
Checking the git log it appears, that Jaroslav Kysela added it in 2003. I wonder whether the blob could be rebuilt with full RELRO and PIE and be updated.
Additionally, I'd like to point out, that I don't know, how much of a use-case the Digigram miXart8 cards still are in current times, so maybe the firmware is also a candidate for being dropped (from the package on Arch Linux).
Any hints, suggestions or ideas are very welcome!
Best, David
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:09:26 +0100, David Runge wrote:
Hi!
I'm (currently) packaging alsa-firmware for Arch Linux and ran across the mixartloader/miXart8.elf, which turns out to be lacking full RELRO [1], PIE [2] and being unstripped.
Checking the git log it appears, that Jaroslav Kysela added it in 2003. I wonder whether the blob could be rebuilt with full RELRO and PIE and be updated.
Additionally, I'd like to point out, that I don't know, how much of a use-case the Digigram miXart8 cards still are in current times, so maybe the firmware is also a candidate for being dropped (from the package on Arch Linux).
Any hints, suggestions or ideas are very welcome!
I wonder what's the matter with that. It's no binary that is executed on your CPU but just a blob that is simply passed to the hardware chip as-is, so we can't modify anything.
thanks,
Takashi
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