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1 FreeCalypso Magnetite firmware project |
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2 ====================================== |
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4 This source tree contains yet another firmware offering created under the |
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5 FreeCalypso umbrella. The key qualities of this firmware offering are: |
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9 * Builds with TI's proprietary TMS470 compiler and thus requires Wine; |
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13 Positives: |
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15 * Can be built to run on Motorola C139, Openmoko GTA02 and Pirelli DP-L10 |
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16 targets, as well as the to-be-built FCDEV3B, all from the same source tree; |
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18 * Works as solidly as the TCS211 "golden" reference from TI, on all of the |
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19 supported targets - deep sleep works, voice calls work in all codec modes |
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20 including AMR, the DSP dynamic download mechanism does its magic, the call |
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21 audio passes reliably in both directions. |
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22 |
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23 The present FC Magnetite firmware is built on the principle of starting with |
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24 the known working TCS211 code base, without any major restructuring, and making |
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25 small incremental evolutionary changes, testing at every step to ensure that |
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26 nothing breaks. It is the direct opposite of the "rebuild from the ground up" |
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27 approach taken with our previous Citrine firmware (aka "gsm-fw"), the approach |
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29 |
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30 Functionality |
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31 ============= |
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33 TI's GSM mobile station firmware architecture supports two ways in which the |
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34 GSM device may be controlled: via AT commands from an external host and/or via |
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36 two mechanisms can coexist.) At the present time, however, only the AT command |
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37 mode of operation is supported in FreeCalypso Magnetite. The effect of this |
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38 limitation is that if you run this fw on a Motorola C139 or a Pirelli DP-L10, |
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39 the phone's LCD will stay dark, the buttons won't do anything, and the |
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40 phone-turned-modem can only be operated via AT commands sent via FreeCalypso |
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41 host utility fc-shell. |
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43 The demo/prototype phone UI code in TI's reference fw delivery is written for |
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49 bitrotten. In late 2015 this author made a very dirty hack to resurrect TI's |
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54 Mot C139 or Pirelli DP-L10 will require major rework of the affected parts of |
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55 the firmware. While I would like to do it eventually, I am not willing to do |
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56 it right now - I would like to get this code running in its pristine state on |
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57 its native 176x220 pix LCD *before* I hack the holy **** out of it for the |
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58 C139/Pirelli port. I do have a real TI-made D-Sample kit with the right LCD, |
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62 get the UI-enabled GSM firmware running on that board, and only then proceed |
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63 with C139 and/or Pirelli ports if such are still desired. |
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65 For now, modem or pseudo-modem operation with control via AT commands is all |
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69 ============ |
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72 using TI's proprietary TMS470 compiler under Wine, the build system is entirely |
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79 Windows environment (drive letters, backslashes, case-insensitive file system) |
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88 In FC Magnetite I have recreated the relevant parts of the TCS211 build system, |
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91 particular desired configuration, you run a shell script to select the config |
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92 you would like. This shell script will create a dedicated build directory tree |
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98 Another key difference from our previous TCS211-based firmware offerings is that |
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99 even though we still have to run TI's compiler binaries under Wine, the Wine |
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102 top, and then the entire build process would proceed in the Windows environment, |
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103 using Windows versions of make and other nonsense. Not so in FC Magnetite: |
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104 in this firmware project all shell scripts, Makefiles, Perl scripts and other |
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105 build system accessories run at the native Unix level, and Wine is only invoked |
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106 at the lowest level by individual tool wrappers: for example, TI's compiler |
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107 binary cl470.exe is encapsulated in a Unix shell script called cl470 that |
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111 As yet another defenestration measure, all source files are checked into this |
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114 Blob status |
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115 =========== |
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117 A long-term FreeCalypso goal is to have our phone/modem firmware rebuild fully |
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118 from source without any blobs, but this goal has not been achieved yet. While |
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122 non-trivial endeavor. Our previous attempt to rebuild the firmware from the |
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124 building with gcc so that no TMS470 COFF blobs could be used, produced very |
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128 approach the blob-free goal incrementally. The new Magnetite build system is |
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129 specifically designed to enable the transition from the use of blobs to |
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130 recompilation from source to be made with very fine granularity, down to the |
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131 level of individual object modules within libs if necessary. We tackle one |
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132 binary-only component at a time, either reconstructing the missing source from |
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133 disassembly or adapting the source from a different version as works best in |
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134 each individual case, and we make a test build of the firmware using the |
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135 reconstructed or fitted component instead of the original blob. If the firmware |
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136 still works (doesn't break), we make this deblobbing transition permanent and |
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139 As of this writing, most of Layer 1 and a few housekeeping parts of the fw have |
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143 into the TCS211 environment in order to replace the binary blob version we are |
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146 Further reading |
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147 =============== |
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149 For various instructions and notes specific to this FreeCalypso Magnetite |
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151 FreeCalypso project and our hardware building aspirations, go to our website: |
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153 https://www.freecalypso.org/ |