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Ironically modules made by Quectel are GPL compliant (https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source) and you can build
by DanAtC 3y ago
Ironically modules made by Quectel are GPL compliant (https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source) and you can build custom firmwares for them (https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk) to strip out any OTA logic.
Fibocom, on the other hand, not so much.
- milesvp 3y agoOh interesting! I’m curious how they deal with FCC compliance. I’ve worked with espressif chips, and the way they stay compliant is to insert binary blobs in the final binary so that you can’t access the radio except through their API. Without this you’d have to get FCC certification yourself, possibly with each update.
- DanAtC 3y agoThe basebands underneath still use firmware blobs like modern wifi cards. Not ideal from a Free software perspective, but better than being left vulnerable to things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301240