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by herogreen 1914 days ago
The radio firmware could be executed on different CPU than the Android kernel and communicate with a standard protocol ?
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monocasa 1914 days ago
That's more or less what happens already.
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teruakohatu 1914 days ago
It is but if the radio driver was open source then the interface with the radio SoC would be documented.

Right now it is the worst of both worlds. Closed interface for a closed undocumented chip able to execute arbitrary code.

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wyldfire 1914 days ago
The interface isn't closed anymore, is it? [1]

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mhi/mhi.html

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UncleMeat 1913 days ago
Drivers don't need to be open source to interact with GPLed code.
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