GSM support on freerunner

[Jim Ancona]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Michael Trimarchi
<trimarchi at gandalf.sssup.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>
>> Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:20:57 schrieb Michael Trimarchi:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 12:52:24 schrieb Michael Trimarchi:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I will start a personal porting of the gsm stuff from standard openmoko
>>>>> filesystem to the
>>>>> android filesystem. I don't have a lot of experince on gsm but I find
>>>>> to
>>>>> daemon:
>>>>>
>>>>> - gsmd
>>>>> - gsm0710muxd
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why would you want to do that? Isn't Android having its own GSM stack?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Look at the code:
>>>
>>> hardware/ril/libril/<libgsmmux-moko>.c
>>>
>>
>> Where is that code?
>>
>>
>
> The android "gsmd part" is under hardware/ril/ directory (in the android
> project) and
> in this directory you can find:
>
> rild directory
> reference-ril directory
> etc
>
> If you want to talk to the gsm chip using a serial device you have an
> implementation
> in reference-ril directory (the at command are send using the atchannel
> function.
> The reference-ril not fit extactly with the freerunner hardware. So the idea
> is to create
> a new part that support the freerunner using the code implemented in the
> gsmd/gsm0710muxd
> project. It is clear now or am I missing something?
>
>

There is a binary: vendor/neo/freerunner/binary/libmuxgsm-ril.so

Sean mentioned last week that the source should be released soon:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openmoko-kernel/2009/1/5/4598754

You might want to follow-up with him before reinventing the wheel.

Jim