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[ACELL01][ACELL07] Portenta X8/C33/H7 compatibility with Portenta Mid Carrier not clearly communicated #1968

Open aliphys opened 4 months ago

aliphys commented 4 months ago

There are a few inaccuracies in the Portenta Mid Carrier Docs page Untitled

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The Portenta Mid Carrier is indeed compatible with the Portenta boards - Portenta C33 (ABX00074), Portenta H7 (ABX00042 and variants) and Portenta X8 (ABX00049). The final customer solution will likely involve the Pro 4G EMEA (SKU: TPX00201) or GNSS (SKU: TPX00200) PCIE boards.

Network connectivity is handled differently between the Portenta C33/H7 (arduino-libraries/Arduino_Cellular/) and the Portenta X8 (Yocto Linux). One is with a Arduino library, the other is via the Linux stack.

Here is the information in a table format:

Portenta Board Carrier Board Pro 4G Module Cellular Support
Portenta C33/H7 Portenta Mid Carrier EMEA (No GPS)/GNSS (with GPS) Arduino_Cellular library
Portenta X8 Portenta Mid Carrier EMEA (No GPS)/GNSS (with GPS) Yocto Linux

This difference is explained inside the Portenta X8 User Manual https://github.com/arduino/docs-content/blob/42e01e0f82947b8edd85b3450bea4e1de996a6ca/content/hardware/04.pro/boards/portenta-x8/tutorials/01.user-manual/content.md?plain=1#L49-L63

Note that the User Manual conflicts with the statement made here https://github.com/arduino/docs-content/blob/42e01e0f82947b8edd85b3450bea4e1de996a6ca/content/hardware/04.pro/carriers/portenta-mid-carrier/features.md?plain=1#L18

aliphys commented 4 months ago

Related https://github.com/arduino/arduino-examples/issues/74

jcarolinares commented 3 months ago

@TaddyHC do me a favor, please follow the analyses done by @aliphys and send me internal conclusions and potential actions if need it, thanks!