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1 TI's Calypso GSM/GPRS baseband processor chip has not one but two UART serial |
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4 but their extended capabilities differ: the IrDA UART adds IrDA capability (no |
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11 FIC/Openmoko, the Calypso presents a standard AT command interface on its MODEM |
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12 UART port. (In the case of GTA0x phones this serial channel is wired to the |
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13 phone's application processor; in a standalone modem it would be wired to a |
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14 USB-serial chip or even to a classic RS-232 DB25 port.) However, what is less |
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15 known is that the standard firmware for such modems simultaneously presents an |
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16 entirely different interface on the IrDA UART - an interface intended for |
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18 calibration and IMEI etc programming), rather than for "normal" end users. |
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23 which needs to be enabled through a GPIO signal from the AP. On Mot C139 and |
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26 the analog headset jack between its "normal" function and the UART carrying |
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29 But there also exist some oddball devices on which the RVTMUX interface is |
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30 presented "in your face". The Pirelli DP-L10 phone has a USB charging port |
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31 which is also wired (through a CP2102 USB-serial chip) to the IrDA UART on the |
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32 Calypso - that's right, IrDA, not MODEM - a design decision with which this |
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33 hacker strongly disagrees. (It'll definitely be wired to the MODEM UART |
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34 instead on our own semi-clone of this phone, but I digress.) Apparently Foxconn |
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38 feature, i.e., their proprietary Weendoze software. And guess what, their |
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39 proprietary "PC sync" feature works over TI's RVTMUX interface, as that is |
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40 what's presented on Calypso's IrDA UART behind the CP2102! |
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42 OK, so what is this RVTMUX? RV stands for RiViera, an application framework |
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48 DLE (0x10) byte prepended before any 0x02 or 0x10 in the payload. It's the same |
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55 these packets over the assigned UART port (usually IrDA, but can be MODEM too, |
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92 various components in the fw suite can register to receive external command |
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93 packets passing first through RVT, then through ETM, and can send responses |
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97 commands: by sending the right binary command packets to the GSM device via the |
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98 RVTMUX serial channel, an external host can examine or modify any memory |
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115 to use whichever we like better for FreeCalypso. After studying the fw source |
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116 implementing the two TMFFS protocols, I (Space Falcon) came to the conclusion |
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118 likely kept around only because some of TI's crappy Weendoze host software |
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119 depended on it. (See gsm-fw/services/ffs/tmffs.c if you would like to judge |
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120 for yourself.) Thus TMFFS2 is currently the "officially adopted" version for |
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124 operator to send TMFFS "get version" queries to a running GSM fw in both |
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125 ETM_FFS1 and ETM_FFS2 formats; this capability allows us to determine |
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126 experimentally which protocol (if any) is implemented by a given proprietary |
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127 firmware version. Experiments reveal that Openmoko's moko11 firmware |
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132 found Leonardo source that transitional fw is based on, and that release was |
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141 running firmwares on GSM devices via RVTMUX. See the rvinterf subtree of |
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142 freecalypso-sw for the source and documentation. |