Can The Proprietary GPS Daemon Be Removed?
Sean Moss-Pultz
sean_mosko at fic.com.tw
Wed Nov 29 15:56:27 CET 2006
On 11/29/06 4:16 PM, "Dave Crossland" <dave at lab6.com> 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 a Chip.
>> 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?
It's a completely separate system. It's got it's own (proprietary) OS,
middleware, AT command layer, etc...
Our (open) application processor -- the 2410 -- talks to this using
standardized AT commands over UART.
-Sean
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