[RFC] TI Calypso / HTC firmware support
Harald Welte
laforge at openmoko.org
Wed Mar 28 13:51:22 CEST 2007
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:16:43PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> I wrote a line discipline for the simple multiplexing protocol that is
> used by TI Calypso + HTC firmware phones like the HTC Blueangel,
> Magician and Wallaby. Thus it is possible to write AT commands
> directly to the UART if the N_TIHTC line discipline is set, and it is
> possible to run an unmodified gsmd on those devices.
great!
> Question: Is it in the scope of gsmd to set the line discipline in the
> vendor plugin if needed, or should this be put in a separate machine
> specific daemon, outside of gsmd? As I understand the line discipline on
> a tty is reset to N_TTY as soon as the device file is closed.
It is well within the scope of gsmd.
I am still working on the multiplexing line discipline code for TS07.10.
ACtually, what I have in mind is even more general. the HTC and
motorola multiplex would just be a plugin to this generic GSM multiplex
architecture.
At that point, the interface for gsmd becomes completely transparent,
i.e. it just uses the N_GSM line discipline and the rest is handled by
the kernel, depending on which particular hardware is in use.
> Further, the HTC firmware has a slightly different (smaller) featureset
> than what is found on the Neo1973. Does that warrant another vendor
> (plugin, as soon as that is possible), or should I look into extending
> vendor_ti? The attached patch is what I use on the magician currently. I
> just removed the unsupported commands and changed %CSQ to %HTCCSQ
> parsing so far, but I think there is some more initial configuration to
> do.
I guess it boils down on how big those differences are. As indicated
before, I want to have chipset and machine plugins, plus the ability to
specify init strings from the config files.
One interesting question is auto-detection. Is there any sensible
response to manufacturer/model/serial number/... inquiry comands on your
HTC machines?
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- Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org> http://openmoko.org/
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