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- Patent Title: Patch infrastructure for ROM firmware
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Application No.: US15664012Application Date: 2017-07-31
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Publication No.: US10346157B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Eugen Pirvu , Dhaval Patel , Dhamim Packer Ali , Bhargav Gurappadi
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: The Marbury Law Group/Qualcomm
- Main IPC: G06F8/30
- IPC: G06F8/30 ; G06F8/65

Abstract:
Various aspects include methods for implementing a firmware patch infrastructure. Various aspects may include identifying a patchable object from a firmware source code image based on a symbol in the patchable object's name, generating a patchable firmware source code file by injecting a first call to the patchable object configured to call to an indirection table and a second call to the patchable object configure to execute the patchable object, building a patchable firmware source code image from a plurality of patchable firmware source code files including the patchable firmware source code file having the first call to the patchable object and the second call to the patchable object, and creating the indirection table including an entry for the first call from the patchable firmware source code image having an indication to implement the second call in the patchable firmware source code image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190034196A1 Patch Infrastructure For ROM Firmware Public/Granted day:2019-01-31
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