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> I would like to add most of the IoT problem is no patches at all. The firmware they get is usually bog standard with some very minor tweaks out of china somew
by com2kid 3y ago
> I would like to add most of the IoT problem is no patches at all. The firmware they get is usually bog standard with some very minor tweaks out of china somewhere.
I was on a team that worked with a firmware vendor, from the US, for a bluetooth chip.
We would send in bug reports, they'd send us firmware with fixes. Except it was obvious they did not use source control because they would sometimes base patches off of old firmware versions that had the bugs they had fixed in newer versions. It was absolutely insane having to send emails like "hi, your latest patch is based on firmware from a year ago, can you please instead fix the firmware you sent us last month?"
- mannyv 3y agoSounds like broadcom to me.
- com2kid 3y agoHilariously, not that time. I do understand why you might think that though. :-D
- sumtechguy 3y agoThose sorts of places are fun to interview at. 'So what sort of source control do you use'. You would think everyone does that by this point. An easy slam dunk question to ask and for them to answer. I had one say 'well sometimes we check it into sourcesafe but usually just copy it around the 5 of us on a fileshare' (this was like 4-5 years ago).