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doc/Compiling: gtm900mgc2 target
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1 Preparing the development and build environment
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2 ===============================================
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4 In order to compile our FreeCalypso Magnetite firmware, you will need a
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5 Unix/Linux system. Even though we are using a compiler which we got in the
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6 form of Windows .exe binaries and thus have to use Wine (see below), everything
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7 that we have built on top of it is Unix-based. The Mother currently uses
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8 Slackware Linux release 14.2 (32-bit) and previously used Slackware 13.37,
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9 also 32-bit.
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11 You will need to install the following 3 pieces of software on whatever
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12 machine you will use to run the FC Magnetite build process:
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14 1. Wine: self-explanatory. The Mother uses the following Slackware package:
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16 https://www.freecalypso.org/members/falcon/slackware/wine-1.5.23-i486-1sg.txz
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18 I originally used it with Slackware 13.37 and I am still able to use it
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19 with 14.2 without any issues.
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21 2. FreeCalypso Wine environment:
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23 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/TI_src/wine/installed-env.tar.xz
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25 Extract the content of the above tarball into your ~/.wine/drive_c
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26 directory - that's all there is to it!
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28 3. nowhine wrapper around Wine:
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30 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/TI_src/wine/nowhine.c
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33 which wine emits on my system:
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37 Wine will also emits a bunch of other whines if you have to run it
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38 in an environment without an X11 display (e.g., on a machine that you
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39 ssh into), and our nowhine wrapper suppresses those as well.
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42 never find yourself in a situation of having to run without an X11
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50 Compiling the local helper utilities
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51 ====================================
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53 (cd helpers; make)
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55 Do the above. Most of the build helper scripts used in the FC Magnetite build
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56 system are written in Bourne shell, but a few were easier to implement in C.
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57 You need to compile these C helper utilities before you can run an actual FC
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58 Magnetite firmware build, but these utilities are totally ad hoc and specific
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59 to the needs of our fw build system, hence they are not meant to be installed
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60 globally on your system - instead they stay within the fc-magnetite tree. You
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61 just need to run make in the helpers directory once before any actual firmware
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62 builds.
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64 Actually building the firmware
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65 ==============================
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67 In order to build our FreeCalypso Magnetite firmware for a particular target in
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68 a particular configuration, run a command like this from the top level of the
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75 arguments beyond these two (optional) allow changing various configurable
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79 As of this writing, the following hardware targets are supported:
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84 dsample TI's D-Sample C05 board (no working radio currently)
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85 fcdev3b FreeCalypso FCDEV3B
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86 gtamodem The Calypso GSM/GPRS modem in Openmoko GTA01/02 smartphones
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89 leonardo TI Leonardo boards
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93 For the available configurations (the second required argument to the configure
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94 script), look in the configs directory and read the various write-ups under doc.
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96 Each configuration is built in its own directory; the name of this build
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105 ./configure.sh fcdev3b hybrid MELODY_E2=0 SUFFIX=-noe2
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107 The build directory would then become build-fcdev3b-hybrid-noe2, and the
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111 To actually compile the firmware, cd into the created build directory and run
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112 make there. Unfortunately the use of TI's proprietary compiler via Wine makes
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114 other Wine program that stays open and does not exit on its own (e.g., wine cmd)
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116 the build will proceed much faster - the presence of another Wine process using
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117 the wineserver environment will keep Wine from shutting this environment down
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118 and restarting it for every individual cl470 run, i.e., for each individual C
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119 source file.
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121 When the build is done, the flashable firmware image will be in fwimage.bin.
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122 This image is to be flashed with fc-loadtool at a target-dependent base address.
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123 The build system also produces a short text file named flash-script which is a
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124 flashing command script for fc-loadtool that erases the correct range of flash
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125 sectors and then programs fwimage.bin at the right address.
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128 a flashable image or a RAM-loadable one - or both. Because this part of the
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129 build system is common with other targets for which only flash images can be
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130 produced, the Makefile always builds the flashable image by default -
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131 fwimage.bin is always meant for flash and never for RAM. To build a RAM-
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132 loadable image when the target allows it, run 'make ram' - the image will be in
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133 ramimage.srec, which you can then load and run on the target with FreeCalypso
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134 host tool fc-xram.
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136 Running on the hardware
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137 =======================
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138
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139 In order to run the firmware you have built on your Calypso phone or modem
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140 (flash or run in RAM as appropriate), you will need to use FreeCalypso host
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141 tools. The current version at any given moment can be found at this URL:
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143 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/fc-host-tools-latest.tar.bz2
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145 Please see target-specific notes for more details.