Purism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism's FSP Reverse Engineering Effort Might Be Stalled

Purism has been working on reverse-engineering the Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP) module but it looks like that work may have taken a turn...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Purism-FSP-RE-Disappear

[kiffmet]

If they had to remove it they sure as hell were successful with reverse engeneering the blobs. If this was reverse engineered properly (which I believe) and no code from Intel was used or even read by the devs, can Intel still enforce (by law/lawyers) to not have this published? I am thinking about the WINE project and their code audit as a compairison.

[AsuMagic]

If they had to remove it they sure as hell were successful with reverse engeneering the blobs. If this was reverse engineered properly (which I believe) and no code from Intel was used or even read by the devs, can Intel still enforce (by law/lawyers) to not have this published? I am thinking about the WINE project and their code audit as a compairison.

Maybe legally Purism was alright but didn't want to risk it anyway. Trials are expensive.

[ErwinJunge]

Hooray for the waybackmachine https://web.archive.org/web/20180407...l-entry-point/

[Cape]

Goyim knows! Take it down!!

[ssokolow]

Hooray for the waybackmachine https://web.archive.org/web/20180407...l-entry-point/

Better archive that quickly. The Wayback Machine obeys robots.txt restrictions retroactively.

[R41N3R]

This doesn't help to increase my trust again, Intel!

[dbont]

Some of the code linked in the post is also on wayback

https://web.archive.org/web/20180421130730/https://code.puri.sm/kakaroto/FSP

https://web.archive.org/web/20180421130720/https://code.puri.sm/kakaroto/FSP/src/master/fsp_common.c

https://web.archive.org/web/20180421130722/https://code.puri.sm/kakaroto/FSP/src/master/fsp_m.c

https://web.archive.org/web/20180421130723/https://code.puri.sm/kakaroto/FSP/src/master/fsp_m_init.c

[nomadewolf]

Wow, i didn't know that 'courtesy request' was a synonym of 'threat'...

[GunpowaderGuy]

Reminder that reverse engineering in principle doesn't inflict copyright , because of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea...ression_divide