Can The Proprietary GPS Daemon Be Removed?
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
mickey at openmoko.org
Wed Nov 29 09:31:07 CET 2006
Dave Crossland wrote:
> 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"? :-)
System On Chip. A term commonly used in hardware design.
>> 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?
Yes.
Regards,
:M:
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