Other Devices

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Nicolas Bougues wrote:
> On Thursday 10 May 2007 09:15:08 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>
>> In short, if the hardware is open enough to get Linux running with all
>> peripherals supported, then the upper layers are no problem (except minor
>> touches to accomodate for display resolution, different GSM modem, buttons,
>> LEDs, etc.).

> Actually, the GSM part may, or may not, be *that* minor. The FIC device uses a
> fully "self contained" radio interface, with it's very own separated CPU,
> memory, and PCB space. It's a big advantage from the "software-interfaceness"
> point of view, but it may not be great for (smallish) hardware design.

> OTOH, "proprietary" phones are free to use whatever "integrated" 
> chipset/software design they are comfortable with, and I believe that in most
> Nokia phones, it wouldn't be  *that* easy to use the GSM radio part with
> Nokia proprietary firmware, along with another, non Nokia OS.

Correct. I was solely referring to 2-CPU phones using dedicated
hardware for BP and AP. Getting OpenMoko to run on a 1-CPU phone is
_way_ more involved.

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- Michael Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org>                   http://openmoko.org/
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