FYI, Mozilla clarifies policy on B2G RIL blobs.
[The platform might become a handset option, someday, in some countries,
starting with Latin America, AFAIK. Today you can dual-boot it on a few
Android v4 phones.]
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/RIL
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/android-hardware-ril
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [b2g] open-source vs proprietary RIL stack
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:28:13 -0700
From: Andreas Gal <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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
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