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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by jkepler on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:47PM (#17128411)
Does anyone know of any smartphone projects where the circuits are designed to give the user's OS (usually GNU/Linux, but could be anything the user fancies if the bootloader's free) control over power to the baseband CPU, SIM card processor, and OS on the Wifi card? As far as I know, the Neo900 project is the only one attempting to allow the user's OS to control power to all those other ones.
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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by fake-name on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:30AM (#17131647)
It doesn't exist. And in the current market, it can't exist.

All the core silicon is wrapped up in huge quantities of NDAs and licensing agreements. You buy a baseband, and the mfg gives you a blob you can either use, or not use the baseband.

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