29 Sep
2009
29 Sep
'09
9:21 p.m.
It's a
pity that there are no free EFR/AMR codec implementation, I
have to use plain old GSM-FR.
what do you mean by 'free' ? patent-free: no, certainly not. but free as in
'souce code available': sure, there are! As I indicated
before, I really don't like the 'daemon in library' approach that we're
using
right now, where the entire OpenBSC 'daemon' runs inside a library that is
linked to some other executable.
I suppose at some point we actually want to offer some kind of IPC based API
for external programs, where OpenBSC runs in one process and the other
application in another. Once that happens, I might consider licensing the
library on the other side of the IPC under a different license.
Yes, having the core running in there is not the most elegant solution :) But
since all the interaction is done via the MNCC interface, it's
probably very easy
to just export that as a socket. Just need to clean up a little the
message format
(with like type & length field always set properly and such) and then
only the mncc.h
header would be used by external apps ...
Sylvain