On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:42:20AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Phones are type-certified by regulatory agencies based on their > > behaviours. There are certain things they should do on the radio waves > > and certain things they must not do. If this behaviour is implemented > > in software, then the software is part of what is type=certified,a nd it > > has to be there. > > Actually for that very reason, the phone part of those devices is > actually quite separate from the rest. It has its own processor, with > its own firmware and communicates via some bus like USB or some such. > > > I have no idea how these interact on the iphone. Or Openmoko. Or > > On the FreeRunner, the phone part is closed :-( indeed for the > aforementioned reasons. Even Openmoko itself did not have access to the > whole firmware of those devices. But they did get far enough to be > allowed to distribute a piece of code that can update the firmware of > the phone submodule (which is an important functionality if this > firmware has bugs).
Good. On the iphone, do you end up upgrading the ohone part at the same time as the OS part? That could end up forcing you to do Apple's jailbreakbreaking upgrade even if you run Linux instead. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
