Hardware Schematics

[Hans L]

Openmoko is a software distribution, and it is completely OPEN source.
 The neo1973 is a piece of hardware, that is not necessarily
completely open.  The chips it uses have specifications available,
which help with the development of open software to run on that
hardware.

-Hans

On 7/26/07, Arash Rajaiyan <arash_r at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> so what is this OPEN in openmoko?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Werner Almesberger <werner at almesberger.net>
> To: Paul Adams <adams at electrowave.com>
> Cc: neo1973-hardware at lists.openmoko.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:21:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Hardware Schematics
>
> Paul Adams wrote:
> > Call me stupid, but I can't find the complete hard ware schematics for
> > the neo1973.  Where are they?  I'm not just looking for chip data
> > sheets.  I am looking for the entire schematics of the phone.
>
> Alas, the powers that be are still reluctant to let us release
> them. In fact, some of the material there is under NDA, so we
> won't be able release that in any case. (For example, GSM
> chipset details.)
>
> The plan is currently to get permission to release the schematics
> for the debug board (which, after all, is specifically designed
> to be extended by hardware-savvy users), and then work on doing
> the same with a simplified version of the Neo1973 schematics.
>
> "Simplified" could mean to just have a big while box for the GSM
> chipset, showing only the signal and power inputs and outputs,
> but not what's going on inside. Not that this would be overly
> exciting ...
>
> The details still have to be worked out, but we keep on nagging.
>
> - Werner
>
>
>
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