Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread Parchet Michaël
Hello,

I nothing understand. Do you are tailing about the openphonux multi-boot ?

Best regards

mparchet 



 Le 10 déc. 2013 à 01:00, joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org a écrit :
 
 On Mon 09 December 2013 19:32:28 Norayr Chilingarian wrote:
 There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in
 every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be
 interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an
 article with you.
 
 http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_eve
 ry_mobile_phone
 
 This article is of pretty poor quality and quite misleading. :-S
 Deprecated!
 
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Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread Christoph Bänsch
 I think that fact isn't new. The BIOS on a normal PC is a 'Second OS' too. 
There is one big difference: the BIOS is safer than the firmware of an GSM 
modem.


But it's only my opinion 

Viele Grüße!
Christoph Bänsch

 Am 09.12.2013 um 19:32 schrieb Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am:
 
 
 There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in
 every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be
 interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an
 article with you.
 
 http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
 
 
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Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 10 December 2013 14:42:56 Christoph Bänsch wrote:
  I think that fact isn't new. The BIOS on a normal PC is a 'Second OS' too.
 There is one big difference: the BIOS is safer than the firmware of an GSM
 modem.

The one big difference is: BIOS runs on main CPU, modem is a peripheral and for 
all free phones doesn't even share RAM with CPU. We have a third OS on 
lis302, a 4th on camera chip, a 5th inside PMU, on PC we have one in HDD and 
one in optical drive. We have one even in SD-card and so on and on

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Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi,

Am 09.12.2013 um 19:32 schrieb Norayr Chilingarian:

 
 There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in
 every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be
 interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an
 article with you.
 
 http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone


you may not have noticed, but this article was already linked and discussed on 
this list before:

http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2013-November/069089.html

BR,
Nikolaus

PS: you car electronics may also run several (embedded) operating system. And 
the
SIM card in your phone also runs a third one. Security is not inverse 
proportional to the number of OSes.



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Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread Bernard Schelberg
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 From: joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org
 To: community@lists.openmoko.org
 Cc:
 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:00:13 +0100
 Subject: Re: the second operating system
 On Mon 09 December 2013 19:32:28 Norayr Chilingarian wrote:
  There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in
  every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be
  interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an
  article with you.
 
  http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_eve
  ry_mobile_phone

 This article is of pretty poor quality and quite misleading. :-S
 Deprecated!


Do you have a better article on this subject that you can recommend?
Or could you explain some more about how it is misleading? The reason
I ask is that I'm having an ongoing conversation with colleagues about
why I continue to support projects that are working to bring us a free
phone. I thought the article referenced made some convincing points,
but I don't want to quote it if it's incorrect.

Thanks,
Bernie

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Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 10 December 2013 21:12:02 Bernard Schelberg wrote:
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  To: community@lists.openmoko.org
  Cc:
  Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:00:13 +0100
  Subject: Re: the second operating system
  
  On Mon 09 December 2013 19:32:28 Norayr Chilingarian wrote:
   There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in
   every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be
   interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an
   article with you.
   
   http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in
   _eve ry_mobile_phone
  
  This article is of pretty poor quality and quite misleading. :-S
  Deprecated!
 
 Do you have a better article on this subject that you can recommend?
 Or could you explain some more about how it is misleading? The reason
 I ask is that I'm having an ongoing conversation with colleagues about
 why I continue to support projects that are working to bring us a free
 phone. I thought the article referenced made some convincing points,
 but I don't want to quote it if it's incorrect.

The article completely lacks any discussion of how entangled or not entangled 
the modem is with the first OS. On dumbphones there's even no first OS at 
all and the whole phone UI is handled by the modem OS. 
While on free phones like GTA0x and Neo900[1] the modem is as much a part of 
the first OS as e.g. a USB stick you plug to your PC is running a second OS 
on your PC.
We actually have ~12 .. 15 other OSes running on any modern PC or 
smartphone, basically every smart chip comes with its own CPU that of course 
needs an OS. The modem is just another extremely large and smart chip of 
that category, but it's not at all entangled with the primary OS - ON FREE 
PHONES. For the usually android crap things look different, since often main 
CPU and modem share same chip and same RAM and you never can tell what the 
modem OS could do to the main OS.

Hope that explained a bit of what I miss in that article. It's not incorrect 
but simply not comprehensive and thus misleading. A modem OS is exactly NOT 
similar to a PC BIOS second OS (see my other post). The article creates such 
misconceptions.

cheers
jOERG

[1] http://neo900.org/faq#privacy
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Re: the second operating system

2013-12-09 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 09 December 2013 19:32:28 Norayr Chilingarian wrote:
 There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in
 every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be
 interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an
 article with you.
 
 http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_eve
 ry_mobile_phone

This article is of pretty poor quality and quite misleading. :-S
Deprecated!

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