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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
