18 Feb
2011
18 Feb
'11
6:57 p.m.
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 03:52:53PM +0100, Drasko DRASKOVIC wrote:
As a matter of fact, what becomes more and more attractive now days are L4 hypervisors, which could separate BB and APP system in the separate containers, running on the same CPU.
The only reason why commercial companies (most notably ST-Ericsson) with proprietary GSM stacks use this is to make sure they don't have to release any of their proprietary code under GPL.
There is absolutely no technical reason why you cannot do a GSM L1 inside the regular Linux kernel. You just have to do it in a GPL-compatible way :)
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