Hi Marek!
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:58:00PM +0100, Marek Sebera wrote:
Silly idea maybe, but would it be possible to port
osmocom-bb for
mediatek/intel/qualcomm BBP and replace the current firmware with open one?
theoretically possible, yes.
I presume it will be a tremendous amount of work, no
doubts, but apart from
that, is it theoretically and technically possible? Given root and/or
hardware acces of course, we do not need to preserve the old firmware or
exploit the update process (ie. if specific cert signature is needed for
bbp-soc firmware update)
The biggest challenges, from my point of view, are:
* using phones that don't use secure/authenticated boot for the BBP, or
those where the certificates have leaked and/or exploits are known
* finding significant enough amount of leaked sources or documentation
and/or doing the reverse engineering required to understand how to talk
to the DSP and/or related peripherals
* finding the time to work on the protocol stack beyond classic 2G which
is currently implemented in OsmocomBB.
Regards,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org>
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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