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+Using OpenOCD to operate on Calypso JTAG: proof of concept
+==========================================================
+
+We have a proof-of-concept OpenOCD configuration for talking to Calypso JTAG
+based on the theoretical findings described in the Calypso-JTAG-notes document
+in the freecalypso-docs repository; the present document describes how one can
+practically use OpenOCD on an FCDEV3B target.
+
+Choice of JTAG adapter hardware
+===============================
+
+The PoC presented here uses an off-the-shelf unbuffered FT2232D breakout board
+with a special EEPROM configuration as the JTAG adapter, as described in the
+Unbuffered-FT2232x-JTAG article.  ADBUS0 through ADBUS3 are wired to standard
+JTAG signals as required by FTDI and ADBUS7 (acting as a GPIO) is wired to the
+XDS_RESET line on JTAG connector pin 2.  This choice of using a generic FT2232D
+breakout board as opposed to a more purpose-made "professional" JTAG adapter
+was made deliberately in order to force the user to make a mental shift
+regarding reset signals: any standard JTAG adapter product will have two reset
+outputs designated as TRST and SRST, but the XDS_RESET signal on the FCDEV3B
+does not correspond to either of those.  But a generic (non-JTAG-specific)
+FT2232x breakout board does not have TRST or SRST, it only has ADBUS and ACBUS
+pins that become GPIOs in MPSSE mode, allowing the user to break out of the
+TRST and SRST mentality: you just have a bunch of GPIOs, then arbitrarily pick
+one of those GPIOs and connect it to XDS_RESET, *without* associating it with
+either TRST or SRST.
+
+The full set of needed wire connections is thus:
+
+FT2232D signal	FCDEV3B JTAG signal
+-----------------------------------
+ADBUS0		TCK (pin 11)
+ADBUS1		TDI (pin 3)
+ADBUS2		TDO (pin 7)
+ADBUS3		TMS (pin 1)
+ADBUS7		XDS_RESET (pin 2)
+
+You will also need to connect at least one ground pin, hence 6 wires in total.
+There is no need to connect the undocumented and non-understood EMU0 and EMU1
+signals - we don't know what to do with them and we work without them.  This
+wiring arrangement and all functionality described in this article work exactly
+the same way on both D-Sample and FCDEV3B boards.  You will also need to
+reprogram the EEPROM on the FT2232D board as described in the
+Unbuffered-FT2232x-JTAG article *before* you connect it to the Calypso target
+board.
+
+One can also connect just the 4 JTAG wires, without reset: there are some
+historical commercial phones and modems on which JTAG lines are accessible, but
+Iota nTESTRESET is not, or perhaps nTESTRESET is accessible, but you don't feel
+like replicating the transistor circuit that is required in order to drive it
+safely - the circuit that is present on development boards, but not on hacked-up
+phones and modems.  In that case you will still be able to halt an already-
+running Calypso, but of course you won't be able to exercise reset_halt or
+reset_run operations described below.
+
+Unpowered FT2232D adapter quirk
+===============================
+
+If you connect the FT2232D board to the FCDEV3B as described above, including
+the XDS_RESET signal and ground, you will notice the following quirk: if the
+custom-crimped JTAG cable is connected between the two boards, but the FT2232D
+board is not plugged into a USB host (has no USB power), the FCDEV3B will be
+held down in test reset: the green LED will be off, and neither button on the
+board will do anything.  The FCDEV3B will be released from this reset and will
+boot in test reset mode with the green LED on the moment you plug the FT2232D
+board into your USB host.
+
+Running OpenOCD
+===============
+
+With the FT2232D board plugged into your host PC or laptop and programmed with
+the custom USB ID of 0403:7151, you can run OpenOCD with the custom config file
+presented in the calypso-jtag directory in this repository:
+
+openocd -f ft2232d-unbuf-poc.cfg
+
+Being a proof of concept, this OpenOCD config file does not follow any of the
+guidelines regarding separation between adapters and targets, but is fully
+monolithic instead.  This config is written to work with openocd-0.10.0
+(depends on the new ftdi driver), but does NOT use the target/ti_calypso.cfg
+fragment that has been included in mainline OpenOCD for quite some time: in the
+Mother's opinion, the latter is bogus.  If someone wishes to bring Calypso
+support in the mainline OpenOCD distribution up to par, I do not have any
+advice or guidance for you: it is your job, not mine.  The present PoC config
+that is rather antagonistic to mainline OpenOCD, its framework and its
+guidelines will always remain our standard answer to FreeCalypso customers
+asking how to make JTAG work.
+
+When you run OpenOCD as above, the FCDEV3B target needs to be in the running
+state with the green LED on.  OpenOCD will exercise and verify the scan chain,
+but it won't issue any resets or halts on its own, thus whatever code was
+running on the board won't be disturbed in any way by the act of running
+OpenOCD.  You can then reset and/or halt the target as desired with our custom
+commands (Tcl procedures) as described below.
+
+Halting the Calypso without a reset
+===================================
+
+To halt an already-running Calypso ARM7 core without a reset, stopping it at
+whatever point it happens to be in its code execution, execute this sequence:
+
+enable_halt; halt
+
+The enable_halt step is a custom Tcl procedure added by us, issuing the
+mysterious 0xB instruction and DR scan that are needed in order to enable halts
+on TI's modified version of the ARM7TDMI core.  Once you have halted as above,
+you can resume and halt again without needing to re-execute the enable_halt
+step; the only time when the enable_halt steps will need to be repeated is when
+the Calypso is reset.
+
+You can safely halt the Calypso in this manner when the flash is blank and the
+boot ROM waits forever for a serial download, when you have loaded a RAM image
+with fc-xram -j and the target is left in loadagent, or when one of our standard
+firmwares is running; in all of these states the Calypso watchdog timer is
+disabled.  However, if you are going to halt the Calypso when the watchdog timer
+is running, you will need to execute our wd (watchdog disable) command quickly
+after the halt, before the watchdog timer is allowed to expire.  A simple way
+would be:
+
+enable_halt; halt; wd
+
+The wd command (Tcl procedure) name was deliberately made short so it can be
+typed quickly with fingers if need be.
+
+Resetting with or without a halt
+================================
+
+We don't support OpenOCD's standard reset command because we found it too
+difficult to override its built-in assumptions which are wrong for our Calypso.
+Instead we have our own reset_halt and reset_run custom commands (Tcl
+procedures) that replace OpenOCD's standard 'reset halt' and 'reset run',
+respectively.
+
+The reset_run command will reset the board without halting the Calypso, letting
+it boot and run normally.  It is equivalent to pressing the RESET button on the
+board with your finger, except that it also re-initializes OpenOCD's scan scain
+and "target examination" state which would otherwise get confused.
+
+The reset_halt command will reset the board and halt the Calypso immediately as
+it comes out of reset, halting at the reset vector before the first instruction
+of the boot ROM code (or the first instruction from external memory if operating
+on a D-Sample board with the boot switch set to external) is executed.  The
+necessary disabling of the watchdog timer (wd procedure call) is already built
+into the reset_halt Tcl procedure; except for this wd step, all Calypso and Iota
+registers will be in their most pristine reset state.
+
+Recovering bricked Compal phones
+================================
+
+Some Mot C1xx phones have Calypso JTAG signals brought out to accessible contact
+pads, allowing a way to recover from a bricked flash bootloader via JTAG.
+However, they do not bring out Iota nTESTRESET, instead they bring out a signal
+which they call DLPWR, which is really Iota RPWON.  A procedure similar to our
+reset_halt would need to be performed as the first step in the recovery
+sequence, but it would need to be modified to work with DLPWR instead of
+XDS_RESET.  The RPWON aka DLPWR signal will need to be driven with an OC/OD
+driver (it is internally pulled up to raw VBAT, which is not a safe voltage for
+standard 3.3V logic), and the switch-on and boot sequence will be triggered
+when this signal is pulled low, i.e., transitions from high to low.  The
+subsequent release transition (from low back to pull-up high) does not matter,
+i.e., RPWON may be permanently pulled down as the Calypso boots and runs, very
+much unlike nTESTRESET or XDS_RESET.
+
+It will be up to you to design whatever circuit you wish to use to produce an
+OC/OD driver that can be triggered from OpenOCD, but connecting RPWON aka DLPWR
+directly to an FT2232x I/O pin is not acceptable.  Copying the circuit from
+TI/FC development boards that propagates XDS_RESET into nTESTRESET won't work:
+this circuit only works when the V-IO regulator is already on, but RPWON is not
+a reset and will need to be triggered when the chipset is fully "cold".
+
+You will also need to figure out the appropriate timing.  You will need to
+insert a certain delay between RPWON assertion and the 'jtag arp_init' step in
+our reset_halt procedure: the VRPC state machine in the Iota chip will do a
+bunch of work between sensing a low on RPWON and releasing the Calypso from
+reset via ON_nOFF, and until then the JTAG scan chain won't work.  But the
+delay cannot be too long either, or you won't halt the Calypso before it starts
+executing bogus code from the phone's bricked flash.
+
+Once you do get a working reset_halt variant, the following steps will be
+straightforward:
+
+1) Run fc-loadtool -h compal -c none /dev/ttyXXX on the serial port connected
+   to the phone's headset jack;
+
+2) Enable the boot ROM and jump to it with these commands:
+
+   mwh 0xFFFFFB10 0x100
+   resume 0
+
+The boot ROM will run while fc-loadtool is sending its beacons, fc-loadtool
+will load and run loadagent, and you can then recover the flash.