all “modern” baseband processors (MTK, Qualcomm etc) have ROM bootloaders which perform cryptographic verification of downloaded fw images, and will not boot any image that has not been signed by the secret key corresponding to the public key whose hash is burned into OTP (one-time programmable) fuses right in the modem chip silicon! The FSF term for this freedom-robbing feature is tivoization.
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2014-January/069211.html
#gta-02 #gta-04 #openmoko #tivoization #mtk #qualcomm #bootloader #fw #firmware #gsm #3g #lte #ept #fsf #freedom
These are my notes on how to compile leo2moko gsm firmware source and flash it into openmoko gta-02 device.
http://norayr.arnet.am/log/?p=113
#gsm #openmoko #leo2moko #gta-02 #neo-freerunner #freerunner #firmware #shr #freedom
By GTA0x I meant GTA01 and GTA02. GolDeliCo’ so-called “GTA04” is rather badly misnamed: GTA originally stood for “GSM-TI-AGPS”; thus a device that does not use a GSM chipset from TI cannot be properly called GTA0x.
It is also quite misleading that Nikolaus markets his product as an “upgrade” to the good old Openmoko phones, as it is actually a downgrade: it replaces a free-able GSM modem (i.e., one on which the ability to run 100% free fw is within reach) with a non-freeable one, i.e., one on which such freeing is totally out of reach.
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2013-October/069022.html
#openmoko #gta-04 #gta-02 #gta-0x #gsm #firmware
First small steps toward free GSM firmware http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2013-October/069010.html This thread is worth to check out. Also this comment http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2013-October/069022.html
#freedom #free-software #floss #gsm #firmware #gta-02 #gta-0x #gta-04 #openmoko #gsm-ti-agps #ti #free-hardwore #open-hardware #csd #gprs #eminent-domain
