I think he had the right intentions about this idea, however it would require vast CPU resources or a coprocessor dedicated to firware/driver layer managment. This is unlikley to happen, However trying to unlock the virtual lips of companies would be a huge step forward. Not to play devils advocate but if the firmware was loaded into RAM at boot a simple RAM dump would allow reverse engineering of the data, and thus the device,So im OK with that. >>> Andy Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/08/08 10:08 AM >>> On Friday 08 February 2008 08:46, Lally Singh wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 8:32 PM, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He suggested we treat any chipset with proprietary firmware as a black- > > box, a circuit. He suggested we ignore the firmware inside. If the > > firmware is buggy and the vendor needs the ability to update the > > firmware, we instead ask the vendor to reduce the firmware to the bare > > minimum, so that it can be very simple and bug free, and move the rest > > of the logic into the GPL'ed driver running on the main CPU. This way > > we completely avoid the issue of distributing proprietary firmware > > updates and binary firmware updaters with restrictive licensing that > > load only cryptographically signed firmware. > > While I see the benefits here, it seems that we're sacrificing CPU > time, power usage, and lowered utilization of other devices on the > phone to get over a license issue -- a technical resolution to a legal > problem. >
I have to agree here. This is a low powered (CPU) device that contains chips designed to perform specific tasks. Why on earth would anyone think that making the cpu handle those tasks be a good idea? Apple can manage to allow their users to update the baseband on the iPhone so why can't FIC on the neo? Seriously, I want a phone that works properly more than I want one that dies during a call because the cpu is maxed out doing stuff that the chips in the same device should be doing.. Rome wasn't built in a day and you're not going to change manufacturers overnight either. In the meantime we have to be flexible. Mr Stallman appears to live in a land where every device has infinite resources - some would say it's called 'LaLa' Andy _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community