joerg Reisenweber <jo...@openmoko.org> wrote: > I have no idea, I took care about GSM firmware only much later. But I think > until the point in time when I was able to contract Dieter Spaar for OM, there < been significantly less knowhow about all that stuff inside OM than what you > demonstrate here.
Hehe. It looks like my effective taking of the stewardship of this modem firmware is not such a bad thing for the community after all. :) Or at least for what's left of the FR user community... I wonder though how Dieter acquired that knowhow back in the day - did he previously work for some other modem or dumbphone manufacturer that used TI chipsets? Or maybe even for TI-Berlin (former Condat GmbH) or somesuch? > And the whole stuff been even temporarily considered > lost forever, thanks to reformatting of a laptop HDD (iirc). Ouch! > Also see bug # 666 which got fixed in moko5 but evidently the patched lib > TI provided for that got dropped for no reason in later fw versions, > until Dieter noticed that and included it again in Moko9-Beta1 Stories like this make me wonder how many other bugs of similar nature might still be lurking in those closed binary libs. That is one of the reasons why I seek to produce a "hybrid" Calypso fw by combining the RTOS environment / drivers / BSP pieces from the TCS211 source (the one leo2moko was built from) with the GSM stack source from the LoCosto find - it will give us a fully functional modem fw without any binary blobs! Whoever originally liberated the TCS3.2 (LoCosto) source which I found at <http://scottn.us/downloads/peek/> in 2013-05 (through a Google search!) is a real hero. If it wasn't for this leak, the only C source we would have had for the core GSM stack would have been the TSM30 version from 2003, i.e., a definite backward step from the TCS211 version given in binary form to FIC, Foxconn (Pirelli DP-L10) and a bunch of others in the 2007 time frame. VLR, SF _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community