On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/7/10 Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
An interesting (to me) discussion, probably not for this list, would be
exactly how open a cell phone could be and still get regulatory approval.
It is very relevant to this list, and I've wondered the same thing
myself. Radio transmitters need to be pretty locked down to get FCC
approval. That's why there are so many problems with wifi cards under
Linux. How open could the OpenMoko be and still get approval?
AFAIK, actual RF communication is done on a separate chip which runs a
propritery firmware.
True
It is governed by a small user space daemon on the main Linux running chip
and it is NOT open source, but is the only component which is not.
Not true. All code on the Linux side is completely open source.
(You might be thinking of the GPS chip in the earlier phone, the Neo 1973. The
GPS company allowed us to release their driver only in binary form. For this
reason we switched to a different GPS chip in our current phone, the Neo
Freerunner, and thus there is no code running on the Linux side that is not
open source.)
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