Ideally, the cellular modem just looks like a network device and usb sound card to the OS. Jail it as much as possible.
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iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 6 months agoI’m afraid with how insecure mobile networks are, modem manufacturers will never dare to open or document their mobile drivers to Linux. And we’ll continue to be stuck in this perfectly controlled and planned scenario.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah…but in reality those things usually run their own CPU and firmware, which is undocumented, and you won’t catch a manufacturer dead releasing any documentation about it. This is a major roadblock.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 months ago
Fairphone devs push their drivers to the mainline linux kernel.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 months ago
also networks. on my network i can’t use volte or 5g with a google pixel 5 because they did not “certify” that.
They “certify” a handful of samsung + the iphones, no fairphone and they would absolutely never “certify” stuff like the pinephone, if they could i think they would even blacklist their whole IMEI range