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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by bluGill on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:41AM (#24918613)
I doubt anyone can make a useful contribution without having the physical board to test on.

Sure you can translate documentation or fix grammar, but otherwise there isn't much you can or even should do without a board to test your changes on. "It compiles: ship it" level contributions are not helpful in general

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by megous on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:26AM (#24919065)
That's not true at all. People can start reverse engineering the library right away. It should be possible to extract quite a bit of info from it, because it seems to be compiled with debug symbols.

It should be possible to start documenting what it does, start investigating how it's structured, how it interacts with the HW, etc. This would help understanding the HW, and so on.

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