Subject: Re: can be NetBSD run on some smart phone or something like that?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Bucky Katz <bucky@picovex.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/22/2007 12:21:50
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> I am unaware of an existing smart phone that runs NetBSD. However,
> the folks at FIC are building a GSM phone (the Neo1973) in
> conjunction with the OpenMoko project (which they launched) to build
> a fully open Linux smartphone, where "fully open" means no binary
> blobs, all specifications available to third parties, etc.
I understand that this is the intent of OpenMoko, but as they are
using a third party radio, I _suspect_ that the "usual" industry
package of the radio running on a separate processor as a "firmware
blob" that talks a well known protocol to the main processor would be
used.