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!GPRS config: fix long-standing AT+COPS chance hanging bug There has been a long-standing bug in FreeCalypso going back years: sometimes in the AT command bring-up sequence of an ACI-only MS, the AT+COPS command would produce only a power scan followed by cessation of protocol stack activity (only L1 ADC traces), instead of the expected network search sequence. This behaviour was seen in different FC firmware versions going back to Citrine, and seemed to follow some law of chance, not reliably repeatable. This bug has been tracked down and found to be specific to !GPRS configuration, stemming from our TCS2/TCS3 hybrid and reconstruction of !GPRS support that was bitrotten in TCS3.2/LoCosto version. ACI module psa_mms.c, needed only for !GPRS, was missing in the TCS3 version and had to be pulled from TCS2 - but as it turns out, there is a new field in the MMR_REG_REQ primitive that needs to be set correctly, and that psa_mms.c module is the place where this initialization needed to be added.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:23:37 +0000
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1 FC Tourmaline firmware differs from Magnetite in two principal ways when it
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2 comes to Mot C139 target support:
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4 * C139 LCD support is implemented in a more forward-looking manner: instead of
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5 emulating TI's C-Sample at the lowest R2D driver level and therefore being
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6 forever limited to 84x48 pixel display size, Tourmaline implements a new
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7 96x64 pixel framebuffer, matching the native LCD size of C1xx phones. The UI
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8 configuration is still black&white only though - the Mother of FreeCalypso
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9 has no current plans to support color UI on smaller LCD sizes than TI's
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10 original 176x220 pix.
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12 * Our aftermarket FFS configuration has been changed from 64x3 at 0x3C0000 to
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13 64x7 at 0x300000. Our earlier 64x3 config was chosen back in 2015, at that
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14 time we didn't know how much room we would end up needing for the firmware
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15 image vs. how much FFS content we would eventually have, and this 64x3 config
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16 is now deemed to be too small, allowing only one 64 KiB sector for FFS
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17 content. Our new FC Tourmaline aftermarket FFS config supports up to 320 KiB
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18 of FFS content, matches what we use on other platforms with 4 MiB flash chips,
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19 leaves 3 MiB for the firmware image (our current smallbw UI fw is only 2 MiB),
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20 and still avoids intersection with Motorola's (or rather Compal's) original
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21 FFS, which is important for avoiding problems in converting C139 phones back
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22 and forth between Motorola and FreeCalypso firmwares.