David wrote: > Modem Revision:GTA02BV4/FreeCalypso
Aha, good - the above means that the AP software that talks to the modem (at least in your distro - QtMoko, right?) is OK with the change in the format of AT+CGxx responses from Openmoko's wrapped form to the GSM 07.07 standard one. This was one of the issues I wanted testing feedback on. > As far as I can tell, from extremely cursory testing, magnetite does indeed > work the same as leo2moko. I was able to receive sms and also calls without > audio issues. Good to hear. > Not really clear what further testing (if any) you wanted At this point, not much more. This is the l1reconst configuration in which only L1 is deblobbed, and the changes introduced by this deblobbing are so minute that any difference in user-observable behaviour should be *very* unlikely. Much more thorough testing will be needed when we switch to the hybrid configuration - see below. > Am I correct to think this is now a truly free, no blobs device? Not quite. Remember that FC Magnetite can be built in several different configurations, and the 3 currently available modem configs (classic, l1reconst and hybrid) correspond to different degrees of deblobbing. As I said above, the build you have just tested is the l1reconst configuration: L1 mostly deblobbed (except the l1audio, l1tm and GPRS parts), but the G23M protocol stack is still the blob version. The TCS2/TCS3 hybrid configuration is much more thoroughly deblobbed, leaving only some minor housekeeping pieces in blob form (those will be easy to deblob a little further down the road) - but this config is not yet ready to be unleashed on non-developer Freerunner users. The TCS3 version of ACI still needs some work before it can replace the currently used TCS2 version, and to do this work I need the FCDEV3B. Thus before we can have fully blob-free modem fw for the Freerunner that has the full functionality of the original, we need to raise the remaining half of the FCDEV3B crowdfunding goal. > If so maybe I'll bite the bullet and use it as main phone for a spell. It would be nice to have at least one user who makes regular use of a Freerunner with the current stable fw in order to provide a baseline for comparison. The timeline looks like this: Step 1: we need the remaining half of the money that hasn't been raised yet. The timeframe for this step is obviously not up to me at all, but up to the people whose money we seek, hence it is quite unpredictable. It could happen tomorrow, or it could take another year. Step 2: once the money comes in, whenever it happens, it will probably be a couple of months from that point to the point of having working FCDEV3B boards. Step 3: from the point of having the FCDEV3B built and working, probably another couple of months to get the TCS2/TCS3 hybrid config into a shape where it could be unleashed unto adventurous Freerunner users/testers. When we do reach Step 3 (a timeframe made indefinite by the prerequisite funding Step 1), it would be nice if the first testers were folks who are already using their Freerunners somewhat regularly, so that any regressions due to the firmware change would be obvious. If the first testers of the TCS2/TCS3 hybrid config are folks who weren't using the FR previously, and things don't work, I probably won't have the resources to tell if the problem is due to the fw change or something else in the very complex FR AP environment. But at the same time, that point seems so far away currently (I have no idea when we'll be able to find more donors to bring our funding campaign to where it needs to be) that it is probably not fair to ask you or anyone else to start using the FR as your main phone if you don't want to. Maybe you could do that step when we have the money for the FCDEV3B, as that is when we'll have a real timeline toward the deblobbed fw goal. > incidentally, I assume you realize that the f******@i***.h******.org > address does not seem to work? Of course I realize it, having to use Gmail instead of my own beloved pure UNIX command line email system is INCREDIBLY painful for me. It is down and I don't know if I will ever be able to bring it back up because of the bastards who took away my SDSL. I used to have my own servers here at home connected to the Internet by way of an SDSL modem which I designed and built myself, but it was all brought to naught in May of this year when the new corporate owners of USA's last remaining SDSL network (Covad, now owned by Global Capacity) shut down their presence and services in my local town. Apparently I was their last customer here, and the revenue from just one low-end SDSL customer wasn't enough to support an entire SDSL Central Office setup. I now need to get some other kind of connection, but it just won't be the same without being able to use a physical layer modem designed and built by me... I will also need to get a new x86 server to run my new personal email system (to replace the downed one), and I would really like to get one that can run coreboot or libreboot, with Intel ME or its AMD equivalent disabled. Any help will be appreciated. It needs to be a server which I can physically install in my own server room at my personal headquarters, *not* some hosted solution. M~ _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] https://www.freecalypso.org/mailman/listinfo/community
