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by antithesis-nl 508 days ago
Yeah, overly complicated firmware like this just isn't great. It's always hard to debug and fix these issues, and there is no "if everything were just written in X" miracle-world where that goes away.

For example, I've encountered hardware that would occasionally write unexpected-error details to a memory location that was completely undocumented. And if you expect more than a shrug from a vendor after pointing out such things, well...