On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:29 +0300, Luciano Coelho wrote: > Hello, > > I have already been reading this mailing list for a while, so I think > now it's time for me to introduce myself and explain a little bit of > what we are doing with WiMAX here at Nokia. > > As you probably already know, Nokia has announced the N810 Internet > Tablet WiMAX Edition[1]. This device is based on Linux, so it's clear > that we are also working on a WiMAX implementation for Linux. > > Our architecture is different from the open source implementation by > Intel, eg. the API exposed by the kernel driver module is simpler and > hardware-independent. > > Basically we have the following components: > > * WiMAX driver module (which will probably be open-sourced soon); > * WiMAX Daemon (will probably be open-sourced soon), which contains > basic controls and provides the interface between the driver and the > rest of the user space; > * A proprietary connectivity daemon (ICd) with WiMAX modules that > contains most of the ND&S logic. > > At this moment, unfortunately, I cannot reveal much more details, but > you can expect to see some more involvement from us in the near future. > > I have already discussed our implementation in more details with Marcel > Holtmann. I think we should start cooperating to implement a generic > WiMAX stack that will become the de-facto implementation for the Linux > kernel! ;) Yes, please do that. We don't want another iwpriv fiasco _at all_. Before WiMAX support gets into the kernel, we need to have a consistent interface that most chipsets can support, so that userspace doesn't have to have specific code for every WiMAX device driver. Where do you guys implement the OMA-DM bits, in the proprietary connection daemon? We're gonna need an open-source (preferably MIT licensed) OMA-DM client at some point here, so if that's where the OMA-DM stuff is, I'd like to request that you reconsider its proprietary nature if you can, to avoid duplication of effort. Cheers, Dan
