Can The Proprietary GPS Daemon Be Removed?

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Wed Nov 29 09:16:06 CET 2006


On 28/11/06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
> >
> > "There are some minor, self-contained proprietary bits on the back end
> > side in userspace."
> > - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/
> >
> > which appears to contradict
> >
> > "In userspace, there only one single component that is not going to be
> > under a Free Software License"
> > - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/
>
> It isn't contradictory, since the complete GSM stack is
> on a seperate SoC

Sorry, what is a "seperate SoC"? :-)

> and userspace
> only talks to it via AT commands (probably wrapped by gsmlib and
> Harald's line discipline).

Okay, so all the GSM stuff is done in ROM? Or is this non-free firmware?

-- 
Regards,
Dave




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