Qualcomm MSM Interface
The Qualcomm MSM Interface is a proprietary interface for interacting with Qualcomm baseband processors and is a replacement for the legacy cellular extensions of the Hayes command set.[1] With mobile chipsets, communication between the application processor and the baseband processor happens through shared memory. On PCs with data cards, QMI is exposed through USB.[2][3]
Linux
In the Linux kernel, QMI can be used through two mutually exclusive drivers: GobiNet
and qmi_wwan
. These two drivers take completely different approaches to handle the protocol. GobiNet
is a complex driver which implements within the kernel most of the core protocol logic, while qmi_wwan
leaves all those
tasks to user-space processes, and therefore keeping the kernel driver as small as possible.[1][4] There are several userspace implementations, such as uqmi
on OpenWrt,[5] oFono[6] and libqmi
[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b Morgado, Aleksander (December 10, 2013). "Qualcomm Gobi devices in Linux based systems" (PDF). Osmocom.org.
- ^ "Qualcomm Linux Modems by Quectel & Co - QMI".
- ^ "QMI". postmarketOS wiki.
- ^ "QMI/Gobi management in the kernel: qmi_wwan or GobiNet?". SIGQUIT. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "OpenWrt Project: How To use LTE modem in QMI mode for WAN connection". openwrt.org. 3 January 2015. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "qmimodem\drivers - ofono/ofono.git - Open Source Telephony". git.kernel.org. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "libqmi". www.freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2019-12-06.