Change in osmo-remsim[master]: doc: generalize the remsim-client part in the overview section

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laforge gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.org
Wed Mar 4 14:52:45 UTC 2020


laforge has uploaded this change for review. ( https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-remsim/+/17344 )


Change subject: doc: generalize the remsim-client part in the overview section
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doc: generalize the remsim-client part in the overview section

Change-Id: I56f7955b05395abe70bf6ad2f0d33843bc6f77b9
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M doc/manuals/chapters/overview.adoc
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)



  git pull ssh://gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/osmo-remsim refs/changes/44/17344/1

diff --git a/doc/manuals/chapters/overview.adoc b/doc/manuals/chapters/overview.adoc
index 842a3c7..2798b2f 100644
--- a/doc/manuals/chapters/overview.adoc
+++ b/doc/manuals/chapters/overview.adoc
@@ -52,14 +52,21 @@
 
 === osmo-remsim-client
 
-The `osmo-remsim-client` software is co-located next to a cellular phone/modem.
-It typically runs on an [embedded] computer next to the phone/modem.
+The `osmo-remsim-client` software is co-located next to the _user of the card_
+which traditionally is a phone or modem.  However, there are other flavors
+of clients available, too. This is for example useful if existing software
+wants to interface remote smart cards, rather than those physically inserted
+into a local reader next to the PC running that application.
+
+In the classic phone / modem use case, osmo-remsim-client
+typically runs on an [embedded] computer next to the phone/modem.
 
 The tasks of `osmo-remsim-client` include:
 
-* interaction over USB with a device supported by the 'SIMtrace2 cardem'
+* interaction with the user application.  For phone/modem, that's
+  over USB with a device supported by the 'SIMtrace2 cardem'
   firmware, which provides the physical interface to the phone/modem SIM
-  interface
+  interface (ISO 7816-3).
 * establishing a TCP connection with the `osmo-remsim-server`, in order to
   enable the server to issue control commands
 * under control of `osmo-remsim-server`, establishing a TCP connection to a

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