Missing Plugin -> threads

[mrratherford]

As of volatility version 2 there were the three plugins: threads, timers and devicetree. I didn't find these plugins in the new version. Do you have plans to bring them back in or are these plugins by community developers?

[ikelos]

I believe we just haven't gotten to those yet, I think they were all core plugins of volatility2. I've given this to the developer that made the previous ones, so we can find out directly the intention for those... 5:)

[mrratherford]

Thanks for your quick reply!

[digitalisx]

Hello @mrratherford,
This time, I developed DeviceTree Plugin, one of the requests covered in this issue.
It was finally merged in the develop branch, so I would appreciate it if you could give me feedback after using it. 🙌

[superponible]

@ikelos I submitted a PR for this.

Some work based on original implementation at https://github.com/digitalisx/volatility3/tree/feature/timers.

The byte manipulation functions from https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/718/files#diff-e13d09e5ccbff35e090d1c91ba6ba0d3d59548f89b38ce97025d2e203b130975 were brought over. I put them in utility.py to be available for both if that other PR gets merged. Not sure if that's the right place.

[ikelos]

The byte manipulation functions from https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/718/files#diff-e13d09e5ccbff35e090d1c91ba6ba0d3d59548f89b38ce97025d2e203b130975 were brought over. I put them in utility.py to be available for both if that other PR gets merged. Not sure if that's the right place.

Sounds good, but I'll take a look during the review. Thanks for the heads-up about the prior code, that'll save me scratching my head trying to recall! 5;D

[digitalisx]

Timers plugin has been implemented well, I can happily close the existing draft PR. :)
Thanks @superponible