Sadly this looks like "industry standard" to me. I have seen many embedded Linux devices using mostly C applications and a lot of usage of the system() function with no or very poor input validation before. When you…
Candela Technologies for example has access to the QCA wifi firmware source code for the QCA Wifi 5 AP chips. They provide custom builds here: https://www.candelatech.com/ath10k.php I know of one other company. I do not…
The MediaTek wifi AX platform is supported by OpenWrt master and also supported by upstream Linux including AX wifi. (MediaTek contributes a lot to upstream kernel) * MT7622 SoC (2x Cortex-A53, including 4x4 ieee80211n…
It is very likely that most Qualcomm customers like Starlink have access to the source code of the Qualcomm proprietary Wifi driver for the QCA wifi Access point SoCs. Some vendors also have access to the source code of…
Checking if a code is secure by counting the usage of memcpy is pretty stupid, but very easy, so it is done by checklist experts to check for security. memcpy_s is not supported by glibc and most other libc…
The pressure from the device vendors to the SoC vendor to support the kernel version which was initially used for the SoC and fixing bugs and adding new feature is much bigger than the pressure to upgrade to new major…
The extra money goes into marketing to tell you that they are the best vendor. The hardware design and manufacture is outsourced to different vendors, in this case to Foxconn. See here:…
Using an very old and unsupported kernel is completely normal for embedded consumer devices like home routers. Normally the kernel is chosen by the SoC vendor when they start the new SoC project. Updating to a new major…
Sadly this looks like "industry standard" to me. I have seen many embedded Linux devices using mostly C applications and a lot of usage of the system() function with no or very poor input validation before. When you…
Candela Technologies for example has access to the QCA wifi firmware source code for the QCA Wifi 5 AP chips. They provide custom builds here: https://www.candelatech.com/ath10k.php I know of one other company. I do not…
The MediaTek wifi AX platform is supported by OpenWrt master and also supported by upstream Linux including AX wifi. (MediaTek contributes a lot to upstream kernel) * MT7622 SoC (2x Cortex-A53, including 4x4 ieee80211n…
It is very likely that most Qualcomm customers like Starlink have access to the source code of the Qualcomm proprietary Wifi driver for the QCA wifi Access point SoCs. Some vendors also have access to the source code of…
Checking if a code is secure by counting the usage of memcpy is pretty stupid, but very easy, so it is done by checklist experts to check for security. memcpy_s is not supported by glibc and most other libc…
The pressure from the device vendors to the SoC vendor to support the kernel version which was initially used for the SoC and fixing bugs and adding new feature is much bigger than the pressure to upgrade to new major…
The extra money goes into marketing to tell you that they are the best vendor. The hardware design and manufacture is outsourced to different vendors, in this case to Foxconn. See here:…
Using an very old and unsupported kernel is completely normal for embedded consumer devices like home routers. Normally the kernel is chosen by the SoC vendor when they start the new SoC project. Updating to a new major…