Richard Kettlewell  writes:
>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?

Unfortunately, broadcom does not play well with others.  There is no
reference manual for their graphics on the SoC used by the RPi
available without an NDA.   Sure, documentation on the ARM core
is available from arm, but the graphics are proprietary to broadcom.

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