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1 Modem configurations
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2 ====================
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4 If you would like to build our Magnetite firmware in the AT-command-controlled
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5 modem configuration (not the C-Sample UI demo on the Mot C139), you have 3
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6 specific configurations to choose from, differing in the level of deblobbing:
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8 classic This configuration replicates classic TCS211, just like
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9 leo2moko from 2013. Almost all of the original binary blob
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10 libraries are used; the only components that are recompiled
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11 from source are those which we got in source form with our copy
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12 of TCS211 from Sotovik. This config can only be built for the
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13 fcdev3b and gtamodem targets, not for c139 or pirelli.
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15 l1reconst In this configuration the Layer1 component of the firmware
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16 (which came as a blob in our copy of TCS211) is recompiled from
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17 reconstructed source, and the same is done for the system
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18 initialization code in main.lib. The entire chipsetsw division
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19 of the firmware (now in src/cs) is thus recompiled from source,
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20 either original or reconstructed, and the only components that
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21 are used as blobs are the G23M PS, GPF and Nucleus. This
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22 config can be built for all targets.
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24 hybrid This configuration is a TCS2/TCS3 hybrid. Instead of using the
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25 TCS211 version of the G23M protocol stack which we got only as
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26 binary blobs, this config uses the G23M PS version from the
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27 TCS3.2/LoCosto source, backported to work with L1 and the fw
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28 foundation layers from TCS211. ACI also had to be replaced with
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29 the TCS3 version, and a special hybrid version of the cdginc
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30 headers had to be constructed. L1 and the init code are also
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31 deblobbed as in l1reconst. Like l1reconst, this config can be
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32 built for all targets, and it is currently the most deblobbed
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33 (closest to full source) Magnetite config: the only remaining
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34 blobs are GPF and Nucleus.
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36 All 3 of the above configurations have CSD, fax and GPRS enabled; this
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37 functionality can only be exercised on those hardware targets on which both
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38 Calypso UARTs are brought out, with the MODEM UART presenting a standard ASCII
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39 AT command interface including data functions, while the IrDA UART carries the
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40 RVTMUX interface for debug trace and other development functions. If you are
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41 interacting with your Calypso target modem or pseudo-modem solely through
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42 RVTMUX, without access to the ASCII AT command interface on the dedicated MODEM
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43 UART, then the data functions of the firmware are inaccessible and act as dead
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44 weight.
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46 Having fully deblobbed all of L1, we are now in a position where we can build a
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47 hybrid config with GPRS and/or FAX_AND_DATA excluded, but I (Mychaela) would
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48 like to thoroughly exercise the hybrid config in its current everything-enabled
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49 state before making further changes to it.
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51 The deblobbing of L1 has been done in a very meticulous manner, ensuring that
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52 each individual reconstructed C module compiles into a strict functional
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53 equivalent of the original binary blob, sometimes even matching bit for bit -
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54 thus no regressions are expected with the classic->l1reconst transition, and no
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55 extensive testing is deemed necessary beyond the basic tests that have already
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56 been done. However, the transition from l1reconst to hybrid involves wholesale
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57 replacement of two major firmware components (G23M PS and ACI) and some
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58 important associated support pieces with entirely different versions from a
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59 different TI program, hence extensive testing and debugging will be needed.
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61 So far the most-deblobbed hybrid config looks very promising: after fixing the
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62 hideous bug resulting from the addition of A5/3 support in TCS3.2 (hardware
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63 feature available on LoCosto but not on Calypso), voice calls work perfectly,
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64 both with the legacy codecs and with AMR! (The same A5/3 bugfix has also been
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65 applied to our Citrine fw, hence the latter now has working voice calls too.)
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66 However, it is almost certain that there are a ton of minor bugs which need to
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67 be shaken out, hence this firmware build config should be treated as
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68 experimental for the time being, not production.