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audio mode load: gracefully handle mode files of wrong AEC version Unfortunately our change of enabling L1_NEW_AEC (which is necessary in order to bring our Calypso ARM fw into match with the underlying DSP reality) brings along a change in the audio mode file binary format and file size - all those new tunable AEC parameters do need to be stored somewhere, after all. But we already have existing mode files in the old format, and setting AEC config to garbage when loading old audio modes (which is what would happen without the present change) is not an appealing proposition. The solution implemented in the present change is as follows: the audio mode loading code checks the file size, and if it differs from the active version of T_AUDIO_MODE, the T_AUDIO_AEC_CFG structure is cleared - set to the default (disabled AEC) for the compiled type of AEC. We got lucky in that this varying T_AUDIO_AEC_CFG structure sits at the end of T_AUDIO_MODE!
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date Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:55:48 +0000
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1 State of blobs in FreeCalypso firmware
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4 FC Tourmaline is almost completely deblobbed. Only the following very small
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5 components exist in the form of blobs (prebuilt binary objects for which we
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6 have no exact corresponding source) in the standard Tourmaline build:
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8 * OSL and OSX glue components of GPF: 14992 bytes of code
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9 * TMS470 compiler's RTS library (libc/libgcc equivalent): 13152 bytes of code
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11 For OSL and OSX we do have reconstructed C code written based on disassembly of
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12 the blobs, but I (Mother Mychaela) do not consider the current state of this C
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13 reconstruction to be fit for production use - hence standard Tourmaline fw
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14 builds use blob versions of these components. However, our configuration and
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15 build system gives you the freedom to select which version of each component
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16 you would rather use; the selection is made with Bourne shell config variables
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17 on the configure.sh invokation line:
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19 OSL=0 use the blob version of OSL
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20 OSL=1 use the reconstructed C version of OSL
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21 OSX=0 use the blob version of OSX
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22 OSX=1 use the reconstructed C version of OSX
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24 The current default is OSL=0 and OSX=0.
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26 RTS library
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27 ===========
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29 We do have source code for some versions of the TMS470 compiler's RTS library,
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30 but they may not be exactly corresponding to the blob version from TCS211 which
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31 we are using. This area is deemed to be such a low priority that no real
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32 investigation has been done yet.