eMBMS in libqmi

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hey,

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> Currently I am trying to test eMBMS. We luckily have an eMBMS test cell in our LTE lab setup. I have a modem (EM7430) which I think supports eMBMS through its Qualcomm modem. The supported commands are
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> nas_get_embms_status_req_msg
> nas_config_embms_req_msg
> nas_get_embms_sig_req_msg
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> according to some posts in the SW source forums.
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> I searched through the libqmi code and I found eMBMS-related code only in gobi-api/GobiAPI_2012-07-12-1036/Core/QMIEnum.h. The Gobi code seems to realize a bridge from libqmi to the proprietary kernel module from Sierra, if I see that correctly.  But beside the defines in QMIEnum.h there is no code related to eMBMS. From the Introduction to libqmi at sigquit, I understood that libqmi is only a thin layer preparing, multiplexing and forwarding qmi commands to the modem. So I suppose I have to know the QMI commands to setup an eMBMS reception and then use libqmi to send them to the modem. I do not have the documentation of the eMBMS QMI commands, though. At this moment I am a bit stuck and do not know if there is a possibility to test eMBMS with the EM3740. Can you give me some idea how to get eMBMS tested with the help of libqmi? Any advice is welcome.
>

Note that the GobiApi code we host in the git repo are just snapshots
of the public GobiAPI source code dumps. This code has nothing to do
with libqmi, they're completely separate projects and they don't work
together.

What we need is to extend libqmi and qmicli with support for the
QMI_NAS_CONFIG_EMBMS (NAS 0x0062), QMI_NAS_GET_EMBMS_STATUS (NAS
0x0063) and QMI_NAS_EMBMS_STATUS_IND (NAS 0x0063) messages. The
messages are easy enough (just enable/disable eMBMS setup). We would
need to define them in data/qmi-service-nas.json and then update
qmicli with new actions to use them.

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Aleksander
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