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craig craig at unreasonablefarm.orgOops, I accidentally replied to Mychaela directly, here's our conversation so far, please others join in with thoughts. On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 09:09:31AM -0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote: > Hi Craig, > > > Thanks again for your details Mychaela. I will read this very carefully > > and keep it in mind as I try to port osmocom-bb to fernvale/mediatek. > > I already expect a good dose of refactoring in layer1 so maybe I will touch > > on fixing the issue. > > Have you got yourself a CMU200 instrument or not yet? A CMU200 is > absolutely required if you wish to have any chance of success at your > idea of OBB on MTK. I do have a Racal Instruments 6103E GSM Digital Radio Test Set which seems to work well so far. I have tested some SIM800 modules (mtk6261) with the internal BTS. Not sure if that will fall short or not but I'll take things one step at a time. When I need a CMU200 I'll probably get one. :) > Another question: is there any way to run any official MTK-based > firmware, however non-free and blob-laden it may be, on Fernvale hw? Probably. I know from reading that Bunnie and Xobs who designed fernvale did run standard firmware/OS on some similar 6260 based devices. Maybe we could track down a good firmware and test on fernvale. For what it's worth the fernvale isn't exactly my main target. I would much rather use a SIM800 module or eventually design of my own. > Has anyone actually done it and posted howto instructions? If not, > then how do you know if the RF hw on your Fernvale kit is actually any > good and not physically defective? Whoever physically manufactured > those Fernvale boards sold by Sysmocom, have they actually tested > their RF hw and how? And what about calibration - have they performed > individual per-unit calibration of various RF parameters on those > Fernvale kits like every standard GSM MS hardware manufacturer is > required to? I don't have any clue about these details. Will have to rely on Harald or maybe inquire of Bunnie and Xobs. > I calibrate my FCDEV3B boards at production time, use > the calibration procedure to also serve as a test of the RF tract, and > ship every unit with turnkey-working official firmware and a fully > valid and legitimate IMEI, fully fit for operation as an MS on public > GSM networks - do they do likewise or not? If not, then they are > substandard. > > M~ Thanks for your efforts, Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/baseband-devel/attachments/20190310/da020cd0/attachment.bin>