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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli gnutoo at no-log.orgOn Thu, 4 Oct 2012 00:32:48 +0200 Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote: > John Case wrote: > > the real trick I am interested is isolating (or at least > > controlling) the interaction between the baseband processor and the > > application processor. Using a computer with a USB dongle gives me > > that control ... would I have that same level of control if we had > > free software running on the baseband processor, or is there still > > additional bleeding possible simpy by virtue of being built into > > the computer ? > > In a smartphone it's almost not possible to distinguish the > "computer" from the "GSM modem" anymore, because of how the > hardware is constructed, so yes. In some yes, in some no... it depend on how the smartphone was designed: On one end some smartphones (openmoko GTA02,golden delicious GTA04), the baseband is isolated(tough on GTA04 it has access to a GPS with no antenna(so it can't work)) . And on the other end there are smartphones with qualcomm System on a chip...where the modem and the CPU are in a single chip: The modem part has the audio DSP connected to it, the GPS. And the baseband uses shared RAM memory and shared NAND(if I remember well)... And I'm not sure but maybe the baseband is even needed for booting the main CPU... There are also systems in between like the galaxy S/Neuxs S that uses shared memory but do not have other problems... Denis.