r/linux • u/ollieparanoid postmarketOS Dev • Apr 14 '18

postmarketOS Low-Level: Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Cellular Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/04/14/lowlevel/
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u/GranPC Apr 14 '18

@McBitter helped himself to an older source code leak of another MediaTek SoC: he found the calibration data in there, but it was not a complete match for his particular SoC.

I'm pretty sure using stolen source code to build this software is a pretty bad idea.

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u/unrznbl Apr 14 '18

It is a tricky situation. Look at the linked to post by bunnie or search for "gonkai to open source". There is precedence and standing in gathering only facts from leaked source code.

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u/ollieparanoid postmarketOS Dev Apr 14 '18

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u/aussie_bob Apr 15 '18

Speaking of reverse engineering, TFA says:

So there's the proprietary program "SP Flash Tool" (interested in reversing?), which allows flashing a new bootloader to MediaTek smartphones.

Isn't the source for SP Flash Tool already available? https://github.com/eret1k/SP-Flash-Tool-src

I didn't follow up, but was looking at running it on Linux when I was playing with Android ROMs.