Le mercredi 20 avril 2016 à 09:57 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit : > Le lundi 28 mars 2016 à 20:50 +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli a écrit : > > I don't know any GSM baseband that can run without their own > > memory. > > > > Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <[email protected]> > > --- > > freedom-privacy-security-issues.php | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php b/freedom-privacy-security- > > issues.php > > index 7def689..8fba5fb 100644 > > --- a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php > > +++ b/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php > > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ > > <a href="images/freedom-privacy-security- > > issues/hardware.png" data-lightbox="overview" data-title="Hardware-side > > overview"><img src="images/freedom-privacy-security-issues/hardware.png" > > alt="Hardware-side overview" style="width: 250px; float: left;"/></a> > > On the hardware side, mobile devices are > > built with a system on a chip (SoC) that includes a processor (CPU) and > > various other fundamental components, around which are found various > > integrated circuits, memory (RAM), storage, user input/output (I/O), etc. > > When the device is telephony-enabled, it > > also > > features a modem, which is the component in charge of dealing with the > > mobile > > telephony network. > > - Nowadays, it is usually a powerful > > processor, > > sometimes with its own memory and storage. > > + Its firmware runs on a dedicated processor, > > with dedicated memory and sometimes storage. > > I agree with the intent, but there are a few problems with this phrasing: > * The term "firmware" is only introduced later in the document. > * "with dedicated memory and sometimes storage" is ambiguous, because one > could > understand "it sometimes has dedicated memory and it sometimes has storage". > What we really want to say is that memory is always dedicated and storage can > be > either dedicated or not. > > How about the following phrasing: > > This component embeds a powerful processor that runs an operating system, > along > with dedicated memory and storage that can be dedicated or shared with the > main > processor.
Going with: " This component embeds a powerful processor that runs an operating system, along with dedicated volatile memory. Its storage can be dedicated or shared with the main processor. " > > </p> > > <p> > > Regarding the software side of things on > > mobile devices, the main CPU (inside the SoC) starts by executing initial > > boot > > code, often known as the bootrom. -- Paul Kocialkowski, developer of free digital technology and hardware support Website: https://www.paulk.fr/ Coding blog: https://code.paulk.fr/ Git repositories: https://git.paulk.fr/ https://git.code.paulk.fr/
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