Dear all,

as far as I understand, the TCP socket interface between osmo-bts and OpenBSC only existed in a particular branch/fork of OpenBTS created by Fairwaves, and it was created at a point where no public release of OpenBTS included any GPRS support.

As the world has moved on (OpenBTS including their own GRPS code with something of a unified PCU, SGSN and GGSN; Fairwaves using OsmoBTS), I'm wondering how much sense it makes to still keep this code in the osmo-pcu repository.

Particularly, it doesn't seem to make sense to keep it as the compile default. A default should be applicable to most users / configurations of a software, shouldn't it?

Any input on thi is appreciated.

My argument would be to drop that code. If not, then at least make it the non-default case. Or even compile both an osmo-pcu-osmobts and an osmo-pcu-openbts binary by the default makefile target and do away with any compile-time switching between the two.

Regards, Harald