Vector35 / Vector35/binaryninja-api
Integrate lifting of PowerPC-VLE SPE instructions
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Description
What is the feature you'd like to have?
@Martyx00 has already implemented lifting of the SPE (Signal Processing Engine) subset of PowerPC-VLE instructions in this plugin. It should be easy to integrate that lifting directly into arch/powerpc/il.cpp, now that we have full support for disassembling those instructions.
@fuzyll requested this in response to an enterprise customer question, I believe.
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Research direction
Start by comparing the SPE lifting implementation in the linked PowerPC-VLE-Extension plugin with arch/powerpc/il.cpp. Confirm how the existing PowerPC-VLE instructions are lifted, then integrate the SPE instruction handling so the supported SPE subset is lifted directly in the API; completion means those instructions no longer require the plugin.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100