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authoruser <user@clank>2026-08-01 17:18:57 +0200
committeruser <user@clank>2026-08-01 17:18:57 +0200
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parenttests: trace integration over the RPC socket (45 checks) (diff)
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rpc: make a raw firmware image drivable (load options, define, bulk symbols)
Opening a headerless blob was the one workflow that fell out of the driving surface entirely, and each gap hid the next: - `pane spawn` couldn't pass --processor/--base/--ida-args, so the pane came up "ready" with zero functions (x86 at 0) and the only way through was to hand-write a project file. It now forwards them to idatui.launch. - c/p/t/T (code, function, ARM<->Thumb, vector scan) existed as listing bindings with no verb, so a driver had to guess raw keys -- and raw keys are swallowed by whatever modal happens to be up. `define {kind,target?}` goes through the app's own edit worker and reports what IDA actually did. - every name went through the typed rename prompt: a navigation (listing page + decompile) plus two prompt round-trips each. A 427-symbol map took tens of minutes of driving. `rename_many {items|file}` hands IDA's rename tool the whole list in one call (371 symbols in 3s) and refreshes the caches and the function table once. drive gains `define <kind> [target...]` and `syms <file.json>`. Verified live against a real pane (tests/test_rawimage_rpc.py, 13 checks: spawn load options, define thumb/func + unknown-kind rejection, rename_many from a file and inline, with resolve/functions readback).
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diff --git a/idatui/pane.py b/idatui/pane.py
index 37a5f0c..8a2e4a4 100644
--- a/idatui/pane.py
+++ b/idatui/pane.py
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ def spawn(args) -> int:
inner += ["--rpc", sock]
else:
inner = [args.python, "-m", "idatui.launch", target, "--rpc", sock]
+ # Loading a headerless blob: without these IDA reads a raw firmware image as
+ # x86 at 0 and analyses to nothing, and the pane comes up ready-but-empty.
+ # They are launch's options; spawn just forwards them (a project records
+ # them per binary, so they're only needed on the first open).
+ for opt in ("processor", "base", "ida_args"):
+ val = getattr(args, opt, None)
+ if val:
+ inner += ["--" + opt.replace("_", "-"), str(val)]
if getattr(args, "trace", None):
inner += ["--trace", os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(args.trace))]
cmd = f"cd {REPO!r} && exec " + " ".join(_q(a) for a in inner)
@@ -340,6 +348,14 @@ def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
sp.add_argument("--project", metavar="FILE",
help="project file to open instead of a single binary; "
"any --open paths are added to it (created if absent)")
+ sp.add_argument("--processor", metavar="NAME",
+ help="IDA processor for a headerless blob: arm, armb, "
+ "mipsb, metapc, … (passed to idatui.launch)")
+ sp.add_argument("--base", metavar="ADDR",
+ help="load address for a headerless blob, e.g. 0x8000000 "
+ "(16-byte aligned)")
+ sp.add_argument("--ida-args", metavar="STR", dest="ida_args",
+ help="extra IDA command-line switches, passed through")
sp.add_argument("--sock", help="RPC socket path (default: auto in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)")
sp.add_argument("--python", default=DEFAULT_PY, help=f"python for the TUI ({DEFAULT_PY})")
sp.add_argument("--vertical", action="store_true", help="split vertically (stacked)")