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board preprocessor conditionals: prep for more FC hw in the future This change eliminates the CONFIG_TARGET_FCDEV3B preprocessor symbol and all preprocessor conditionals throughout the code base that tested for it, replacing them with CONFIG_TARGET_FCFAM or CONFIG_TARGET_FCMODEM. These new symbols are specified as follows: CONFIG_TARGET_FCFAM is intended to cover all hardware designs created by Mother Mychaela under the FreeCalypso trademark. This family will include modem products (repackagings of the FCDEV3B, possibly with RFFE or even RF transceiver changes), and also my desired FreeCalypso handset product. CONFIG_TARGET_FCMODEM is intended to cover all FreeCalypso modem products (which will be firmware-compatible with the FCDEV3B if they use TI Rita transceiver, or will require a different fw build if we switch to one of Silabs Aero transceivers), but not the handset product. Right now this CONFIG_TARGET_FCMODEM preprocessor symbol is used to conditionalize everything dealing with MCSI. At the present moment the future of FC hardware evolution is still unknown: it is not known whether we will ever have any beyond-FCDEV3B hardware at all (contingent on uncertain funding), and if we do produce further FC hardware designs, it is not known whether they will retain the same FIC modem core (triband), if we are going to have a quadband design that still retains the classic Rita transceiver, or if we are going to switch to Silabs Aero II or some other transceiver. If we produce a quadband modem that still uses Rita, it will run exactly the same fw as the FCDEV3B thanks to the way we define TSPACT signals for the RF_FAM=12 && CONFIG_TARGET_FCFAM combination, and the current fcdev3b build target will be renamed to fcmodem. OTOH, if that putative quadband modem will be Aero-based, then it will require a different fw build target, the fcdev3b target will stay as it is, and the two targets will both define CONFIG_TARGET_FCFAM and CONFIG_TARGET_FCMODEM, but will have different RF_FAM numbers. But no matter which way we are going to evolve, it is not right to have conditionals on CONFIG_TARGET_FCDEV3B in places like ACI, and the present change clears the way for future evolution.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Mon, 01 Apr 2019 01:05:24 +0000
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Notice of Adoption
==================

I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, hereby appoint myself as the Adoptive Mother of
the GSM mobile station firmware code that has been abandoned, disowned and
discarded in the trash by Texas Instruments (TI).  I argue that by effectively
disowning this code and discarding it in the trash, TI have forfeited any and
all rights they may have had to this code, both moral and economic, and I ask
the users and distributors of my code to ignore and disregard any and all TI
copyright notices interspersed in various individual source files.

Declaration of Free Software Status
===================================

I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, the Adoptive Mother of the software contained in
this source repository, develop, maintain and distribute this work with the
intention that it be treated as Free Software.  Specifically:

* By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may use this
  code as you wish, for any purpose whatsoever;

* By virtue of the complete source code being published, you may study how this
  code works, and change it so it does whatever you desire;

* By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may
  redistribute copies of this code however you like;

* Also by virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may
  distribute modified versions to others as well.

Because the present developer, maintainer and distributor of this code is me
and not TI, I argue that my granting of all of the above freedoms to the user
community should supercede the lack of such grant from TI, and that my work has
the right to be treated as Free Software.