On 05/01/2021 09:07, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> gareth evans  writes:
>> Thinking back to my first job, nearly 50 years ago now,
>> when I had to dis-assemble DEC's paper tape BASIC
>> interpreter in order to enhance it, I guess that
>> dis-assemblers and decompilers must now be ten-a-penny,
>> especially for programs running under Windows where
>> the structure of Windows programs is well-known with
>> an assumption that C was the source language?
>>
>> But I wonder if Artificial Intelligence could, after
>> being fed with numerous instruction sets, take a
>> block of binary, and analyse its source without
>> any prior knowledge of the instruction set?
>>
>> I am particularly interested in the Binary Blob
>> provided for Raspberry Pi computers, with a view to
>> getting detailed knowledge of the video processors
>> employed therein.
>
> Why would you do that instead of reading a reference manual for the
> target architecture?
>

Because no such manuals are available. The BroadCom GPUs are
a closely guarded proprietary secret to hoi polloi.

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