Does the RIL stack go down to the firmware level? I mean... does this free software RIL implementation include a free software implementation of firmware to be run in some specific radio chip?
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Andreas Gal <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
