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board preprocessor conditionals: prep for more FC hw in the future Please see the corresponding change in fc-magnetite for the explanation.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Mon, 01 Apr 2019 01:20:03 +0000
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1 Running FC Selenite on FCDEV3B hardware
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4 You can build a flashable image and flash it with fc-loadtool, or you can build
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5 a RAM-loadable image (make ram) and run it via fc-xram.
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7 Running FC Selenite on Motorola C1xx hardware
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10 FC Selenite can only function as a voice pseudo-modem (VPM) on Mot C1xx
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11 hardware - please read the Voice-pseudo-modem article in the fc-magnetite Hg
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12 repository for the explanation.
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14 If your C1xx phone is one of the lower subfamilies (C11x/12x or C139/140), then
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15 flashing is the only way to run any FreeCalypso firmware on it - these phones
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16 only have enough RAM to satisfy the firmware's data space requirements, but not
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17 enough to run the firmware itself out of RAM.
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19 If you are working with a C155/156 phone, the primary way to run FC Magnetite
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20 or FC Selenite on it is to flash your fw image just like on the lower
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21 subfamilies. It is also possible to build the gcc version of Selenite (but not
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22 the TMS470 version) as a RAM-loadable image (make ram) and run it via fc-xram,
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23 but it will still require having a FreeCalypso FFS in the flash, which is not
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24 compatible with Mot's original fw on this model - thus you still need to flash
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25 some FC firmware version first (either Magnetite or Selenite), use it to
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26 initialize the FFS for FreeCalypso, and then you can run Selenite-gcc via
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27 fc-xram if desired.
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29 The procedure for flashing an FC Selenite fw image into a Mot C1xx phone is the
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30 same as for Magnetite - please read the C1xx-Howto article in the fc-magnetite
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31 source repository.
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33 Running FC Selenite on Pirelli DP-L10 hardware
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36 Both Magnetite and Selenite can only function as a voice pseudo-modem on the
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37 Pirelli DP-L10 hw; it is highly unlikely that there will ever be a practically
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38 usable FreeCalypso phone based on this hw platform. Both TMS470 and gcc
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39 versions of Selenite can be built as a RAM-loadable image for this target, and
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40 are to be exercised in the same way as Magnetite, including the requirement of
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41 FreeCalypso FFS initialization - please read the Pirelli-Howto article in the
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42 fc-magnetite Hg repository.