On 11/29/06 4:16 PM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28/11/06, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> "There are some minor, self-contained proprietary bits on the back end >>> side in userspace." >>> - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/ >>> >>> which appears to contradict >>> >>> "In userspace, there only one single component that is not going to be >>> under a Free Software License" >>> - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/ >> >> It isn't contradictory, since the complete GSM stack is >> on a seperate SoC > > Sorry, what is a "seperate SoC"? :-) System on a Chip. >> and userspace >> only talks to it via AT commands (probably wrapped by gsmlib and >> Harald's line discipline). > > Okay, so all the GSM stuff is done in ROM? Or is this non-free firmware? It's a completely separate system. It's got it's own (proprietary) OS, middleware, AT command layer, etc... Our (open) application processor -- the 2410 -- talks to this using standardized AT commands over UART. -Sean _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
