Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by userbinator on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @02:25AM
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Practically all phones have separate application/baseband processors, since the baseband processing has hard realtime constraints; I think what you're more interested in is whether the baseband CPU has direct access to the main memory and CPU, and that's not something that can be discerned physically. Even with physically separate baseband/AP CPUs, the former might have DMA access to main memory.
Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by slavak on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @02:33AM
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Off-topic, but I couldn't help pointing out that saying "DMA access to main memory" is even worse than the classic "ATM machine" or "PIN number."
Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by angry_octet on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @10:37AM
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Since we're nitpicking, no it isn't. DMA is a particular method of accessing memory. You can have direct mapped access, cache mediated, PIO, DMA, etc. There can be many different memories, such as expansion cards, where you could DMA to/from, apart from main memory.
GSM Arena doesn't appear to have this information. You might have to go through iFixit teardowns. It's also possible this isn't something happening today -- I've been out of this arena for some time.
What you want to look for is something like this, where you see both a CPU and a processor like the MDM6600:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola+Droid+Bionic+Teardo...