Timeline for What's the easiest way to determine the OS contained in a firmware binary?
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| Apr 19, 2013 at 4:16 | comment | added | dyasta | You'd normally see a Wind River copyright somewhere. If you don't see any plaintext, then you gotta get that image to its plain state for analysis. When I worked on the VxWorks edition of the WRT54G(S), I reversed the VxWorks header format. Perhaps it will be the same or similar, who knows. I updated the answer. Link is here: bitsum.com/openwiking/owbase/WRT54G5_CFE | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 4:14 | history | edited | dyasta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2013 at 17:46 | comment | added | gigawatt | I'm starting to believe that this is VxWorks but don't know what I'm looking for to definitely say that this VxWorks. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 0:50 | history | edited | dyasta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 0:49 | comment | added | dyasta | True! Speaking of BSD derivatives, I was considering listing iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms, as they can be used for embedded systems, and a phone is almost classified as such anyway. | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 20:33 | comment | added | 0xC0000022L♦ | Basically all of the BSDs are also possible choices, actually - probably most notably NetBSD. +1 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 20:24 | history | edited | dyasta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2013 at 20:19 | history | answered | dyasta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |