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first round of documentation
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:08:15 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/C139-notes Sun Oct 18 18:08:15 2020 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +FC Tourmaline firmware differs from Magnetite in two principal ways when it +comes to Mot C139 target support: + +* C139 LCD support is implemented in a more forward-looking manner: instead of + emulating TI's C-Sample at the lowest R2D driver level and therefore being + forever limited to 84x48 pixel display size, Tourmaline implements a new + 96x64 pixel framebuffer, matching the native LCD size of C1xx phones. The UI + configuration is still black&white only though - the Mother of FreeCalypso + has no current plans to support color UI on smaller LCD sizes than TI's + original 176x220 pix. + +* Our aftermarket FFS configuration has been changed from 64x3 at 0x3C0000 to + 64x7 at 0x300000. Our earlier 64x3 config was chosen back in 2015, at that + time we didn't know how much room we would end up needing for the firmware + image vs. how much FFS content we would eventually have, and this 64x3 config + is now deemed to be too small, allowing only one 64 KiB sector for FFS + content. Our new FC Tourmaline aftermarket FFS config supports up to 320 KiB + of FFS content, matches what we use on other platforms with 4 MiB flash chips, + leaves 3 MiB for the firmware image (our current smallbw UI fw is only 2 MiB), + and still avoids intersection with Motorola's (or rather Compal's) original + FFS, which is important for avoiding problems in converting C139 phones back + and forth between Motorola and FreeCalypso firmwares.