A wanted to send out a quick clarification about the RIL (radio interface layer) stack. We are implementing an open-source RIL layer in Gecko. Some silicon vendors might opt to offer their OEMs to use a different commercially hardened non-open source reimplementation of our RIL stack. Such blobs are pretty common in the OEM space, and its a way for chipset vendors to differentiate at the software level and convince OEMs to use their chipset over some other chipset.
I don't want to discuss on an open list whether our first device will use our open source RIL stack, or a propriety one. It doesn't really change much for us either way. We will continue to develop our open source RIL stack. Some OEMs might opt to use our stack instead of proprietary ones, and some silicon vendors might not provide their own proprietary stack to begin with. Also, as our stack is improving over time, at some point there won't be sufficient room to innovate/differentiate, and I would expect all phones to fall back onto our open-source stack eventually. Let me know if you have any questions. Andreas _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
