From 1ddccbf2d2a9efe91119e879bd7f33b3044ecf51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Georgi Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 13:50:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Docs/project_ideas: Add a stub for Ghidra integration It may be useful to have a common, easily available toolbench for firmware analysis and Ghidra looks promising. Change-Id: I56d0ff875bb939f6d31f088232f8a6fd168abbb6 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31806 Reviewed-by: Angel Pons Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) --- Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md index d16e9fe6a8..97499a8c62 100644 --- a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md +++ b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md @@ -172,3 +172,10 @@ as such. For valid reports, provide patches to fix the underlying issue. ### Mentors * Patrick Georgi + +## Extend Ghidra to support analysis of firmware images +[Ghidra](https://ghidra-sre.org) is a recently released cross-platform +disassembler and decompiler that is extensible through plugins. Make it +useful for firmware related work: Automatically parse formats (eg. by +integrating UEFITool, cbfstool, decompressors), automatically identify +16/32/64bit code on x86/amd64, etc.