Hey,

> Qualcomm used to publish parts of their QMI related docs, both through the 
> Code Aurora Gobi project and as part of a separate open developer program 
> they had. But they changed their policies in 2013 or thereabout. So we don't 
> have access to anything newer. I assume the documents are still maintained 
> internally, and available to partners under strict NDA.
>
> IMHO this is bad both for Qualcomm and for the open source community. But 
> it's obviously within their rights to do.
>
> Let's appreciate the open period they had, and hope they eventually realize 
> how much they gained doing that. There would not have been any QMI driver or 
> libqmi if those documents were unavailable back then..
>

I'm no expert in doing this, but I know a lot of people who have been
successful finding QMI related documentation exposed knowingly or
unknowingly by modem manufacturers (not by Qualcomm themselves), e.g.
in random public github repositories.

-- 
Aleksander

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