The Fascinate is not supported by AOSP. However, it is supported in CyanogenMod. That said, support for that device requires use the use of a number of telephony-related binary blobs pulled from stock Samsung ROMs, which is exactly the problem the article is referring to.
If you were to build a CM ROM for the Fascinate purely from source code, that is, without extracting the blobs from an existing CM ROM or downloading them separeately, the build will fail. At best, you could hack together a build that would boot, but all telephony functionality would be disabled.
Beyond that, CM support for the Fascinate required a lot of additional effort to reverse engineer its telephony stack as, not only is it proprietary, it's not even interface compatible with the AOSP framework.
Kudos to CM developers for bringing open-source Android support up from the six or so devices officially supported by AOSP itself, to 80+ devices. Proprietary, incompatible vendor blobs in a huge thorn in their side, and it's amazing how well they've been able to work around such a limitation to make a really solid Android distribution.
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The Fascinate is not supported by AOSP. However, it is supported in CyanogenMod. That said, support for that device requires use the use of a number of telephony-related binary blobs pulled from stock Samsung ROMs, which is exactly the problem the article is referring to.
If you were to build a CM ROM for the Fascinate purely from source code, that is, without extracting the blobs from an existing CM ROM or downloading them separeately, the build will fail. At best, you could hack together a build that would boot, but all telephony functionality would be disabled.
Beyond that, CM support for the Fascinate required a lot of additional effort to reverse engineer its telephony stack as, not only is it proprietary, it's not even interface compatible with the AOSP framework.
Kudos to CM developers for bringing open-source Android support up from the six or so devices officially supported by AOSP itself, to 80+ devices. Proprietary, incompatible vendor blobs in a huge thorn in their side, and it's amazing how well they've been able to work around such a limitation to make a really solid Android distribution.