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README: project status update
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sun, 06 Oct 2019 05:23:59 +0000
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55 more, and is no less free, FC Citrine is now officially fully retired. 55 more, and is no less free, FC Citrine is now officially fully retired.
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57 As the next step, someone needs to do the work of tracking down and debugging 57 As the next step, someone needs to do the work of tracking down and debugging
58 all of the issues seen in the gcc-built version, and make it work as well as 58 all of the issues seen in the gcc-built version, and make it work as well as
59 the original TMS470-built configuration. However, I (Mother Mychaela) am not 59 the original TMS470-built configuration. However, I (Mother Mychaela) am not
60 currently allocating my time toward that work because I see other directions 60 currently willing to work in that direction until and unless we recover some
61 within the greater FreeCalypso family of projects as being more important. 61 original authentic versions of os_???.c and osx.c modules - the reconstructions
62 Specifically, I see the following as much higher priorities compared to 62 from 2014 which are used in the present FC Selenite experimental source tree
63 gcc-built firmware: 63 (same as Citrine) aren't good enough.
64
65 * Getting our FCDEV3B V2 boards made to prove my proposed fix for the sleep
66 mode bug, and if they work as expected, we'll need to make more FreeCalypso
67 modem hw in various form factors and put that hw into the hands of end users.
68 Software or firmware without hardware to run it on is useless no matter how
69 good or how free/libre it is, hence it makes no sense to me to worry whether
70 our fw is built with gcc or with TI's TMS470 compiler until the hardware
71 that's needed to run it is made in greater volume and placed into the hands
72 of people who would appreciate it.
73
74 * Getting the digital voice channel over MCSI working, which is a prerequisite
75 before we can repackage our FreeCalypso modem into a module form factor which
76 could then be marketed to communities like Neo900 and Librem 5 as a drop-in
77 replacement for the 100% closed and proprietary modem modules they use
78 currently.
79
80 * Building our long-planned FreeCalypso Libre Dumbphone hardware, so we can
81 have a complete phone without needing someone else like Neo900 or Librem 5 or
82 ZeroPhone to provide an application processor front-end to our modem.
83
84 Anyone else who feels that whipping the gcc-built fw version into shape should
85 be a higher priority has two options: either do the work themselves (the code
86 is free for everyone), or pay Falconia Partners LLC to elevate the priority of
87 this gcc-built fw work.