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author Michael Spacefalcon <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
date Thu, 15 May 2014 10:32:30 +0000
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1 Two programs are currently buildable in this target-utils tree: loadagent and
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2 pirexplore. Loadagent is built to be loaded and run out of the Calypso internal
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3 (on-chip) RAM, and does not depend on any hardware outside of the Calypso chip
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4 itself - thus it should run unchanged on all Calypso targets. It expects to be
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5 loaded by the Calypso ROM bootloader in the UART download mode, and it reads a
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6 RAM variable left behind by the ROM code that indicates which UART has been used
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7 to perform that download - it then uses that same UART to communicate with the
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8 host, presenting an interactive command prompt. You can run loadagent "raw" by
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9 loading loadagent.srec with fc-iram, but normally it is used "behind the scenes"
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10 by fc-loadtool and fc-xram.
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11
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12 Pirexplore is built in the same manner as loadagent (also runs out of IRAM,
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13 expects to be loaded with fc-iram, and presents an interactive command prompt
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14 on the autodetected UART), but it automatically performs some hardware (board
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15 level) initialization specific to the Pirelli, and offers additional commands
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16 for exploring the hardware features of this device.