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1 You are looking at the top level of the FreeCalypso host tools package. All
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2 tools in this package have been written to run on a Unix-based or Unix-like
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3 host system, such as a GNU/Linux PC or laptop, with the expectation that the
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4 user will compile them from the source using her regular system C compiler.
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6 Most of these tools interface to and operate on Calypso-based GSM devices,
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7 while a few perform some ancillary functions. Please see
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8 doc/Host-tools-overview for the listing of what tools are available and what
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9 they do. These tools are built in the following source directories:
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11 ffstools tiffs, mokoffs and pirffs are built here.
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13 loadtools fc-loadtool, fc-iram, fc-xram and fc-compalram form the part of
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14 FC host tools called loadtools, which used to be its own
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15 package. In common with the rest of FC host tools, loadtools
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16 run on a PC or whatever host system, but they also require two
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17 target-side components called loadagent (for all targets) and
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18 compalstage (for Compal phones only). If you are working with
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19 a packaged release of FC host tools, as opposed to a random
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20 snapshot of the source tree, precompiled binaries for loadagent
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21 and compalstage will be included under
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22 loadtools/target-binaries.
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24 lcdemu fc-lcdemu is built here.
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26 miscutil fc-rgbconv, fc-serterm and imei-luhn are built here.
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28 rvinterf Everything dealing with the RVTMUX interface to running GSM
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29 firmwares and everything based on the rvinterf framework is
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30 built under rvinterf.
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32 The tfc139 utility, which logically belongs with loadtools, is
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33 built in the rvinterf subtree because it is built from mostly
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34 the same source components as rvtdump and rvinterf.
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36 The 5 directories listed above contain all of FC host tools; they are all you
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37 need in order to get a fully working installation of these tools if you are
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38 using the provided precompiled binaries for loadagent and compalstage. However,
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39 if you would like to recompile these components from source, you will need the
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40 following additional stuff:
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42 target-utils The source for loadagent and compalstage lives here, along with
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43 a few extra target utilities that are of interest only to
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44 developers.
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46 toolchain Scripts and patches for building the gcc+binutils toolchain
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47 targeting ARM7, the CPU core of the Calypso GSM/GPRS baseband
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48 processor. You'll need to build and install this toolchain
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49 first before you can build target-utils.