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tpudrv12.h: FCDEV3B goes back to being itself
A while back we had the idea of a FreeCalypso modem family whereby our
current fcdev3b target would some day morph into fcmodem, with multiple
FC modem family products, potentially either triband or quadband, being
firmware-compatible with each other and with our original FCDEV3B. But
in light of the discovery of Tango modules that earlier idea is now being
withdrawn: instead the already existing Tango hw is being adopted into
our FreeCalypso family.
Tango cannot be firmware-compatible with triband OM/FCDEV3B targets
because the original quadband RFFE on Tango modules is wired in TI's
original Leonardo arrangement. Because this Leonardo/Tango way is now
becoming the official FreeCalypso way of driving quadband RFFEs thanks
to the adoption of Tango into our FC family, our earlier idea of
extending FIC's triband RFFE control signals with TSPACT5 no longer makes
much sense - we will probably never produce any new hardware with that
once-proposed arrangement. Therefore, that triband-or-quadband FCFAM
provision is being removed from the code base, and FCDEV3B goes back to
being treated the same way as CONFIG_TARGET_GTAMODEM for RFFE control
purposes.
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2 modems is moko13 as of this writing; moko13 is FreeCalypso Magnetite Hg |
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3 changeset 286:840113655bbf built for the gtamodem target in the l1reconst |
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4 configuration. There have been many changes in FC Magnetite since then, but |
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5 few of them affect the l1reconst config on the gtamodem target in any |
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6 noticeable way. The few noticeable post-moko13 changes which we do have in our |
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7 current l1reconst code are not deemed important enough to justify making |
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8 another formal release for a no-longer-made hardware platform that no longer |
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9 has any real user community either. |
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11 However, we also have the new TCS2/TCS3 hybrid config in which the old version |
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13 replaced with a newer version from TI's TCS3/LoCosto program, and this new |
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14 version is full source. This hybrid firmware has now reached the state where |
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15 it is ready to be exercised by adventurous beta users in real-life usage. |
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17 The new hybrid fw for the gtamodem target can be built as follows: |
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19 ./configure.sh gtamodem hybrid |
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20 cd build-gtamodem-hybrid; make |
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22 Then after enduring the very slow build, you can flash it with fc-loadtool: |
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24 loadtool> flash erase 0 0x250000 |
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25 loadtool> flash program-bin 0 fwimage.bin |
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27 If you are brave enough to do the above, please let us know how this new modem |
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28 firmware fares when driven by QtMoko or SHR on the AP - it would definitely be |
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29 an adventure! We would be most interested in working with developers or |
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30 maintainers of specific AP software components that are directly responsible |
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31 for talking AT commands to the modem, if there are any such developers or |
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32 maintainers still around. |