FreeCalypso > hg > fc-tourmaline
view doc/Blob-status @ 303:f76436d19a7a default tip
!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 |
| parents | a62e5bf88434 |
| children |
line wrap: on
line source
State of blobs in FreeCalypso firmware ====================================== FC Tourmaline is almost completely deblobbed. Only the following very small components exist in the form of blobs (prebuilt binary objects for which we have no exact corresponding source) in the standard Tourmaline build: * OSL and OSX glue components of GPF: 14992 bytes of code * TMS470 compiler's RTS library (libc/libgcc equivalent): 13152 bytes of code For OSL and OSX we do have reconstructed C code written based on disassembly of the blobs, but I (Mother Mychaela) do not consider the current state of this C reconstruction to be fit for production use - hence standard Tourmaline fw builds use blob versions of these components. However, our configuration and build system gives you the freedom to select which version of each component you would rather use; the selection is made with Bourne shell config variables on the configure.sh invokation line: OSL=0 use the blob version of OSL OSL=1 use the reconstructed C version of OSL OSX=0 use the blob version of OSX OSX=1 use the reconstructed C version of OSX The current default is OSL=0 and OSX=0. RTS library =========== We do have source code for some versions of the TMS470 compiler's RTS library, but they may not be exactly corresponding to the blob version from TCS211 which we are using. This area is deemed to be such a low priority that no real investigation has been done yet.