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1 You are looking at the source for the FreeCalypso loadtools package. You may
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2 have downloaded it either as a separate package or as part of the larger
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3 freecalypso-sw suite.
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5 The tools in this package are written to run on some Unix/Linux machine
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6 (normally a PC/Linux desktop or laptop) that acts as a host for operating on
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7 Calypso target devices. All of these tools communicate with the Calypso target
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8 through a serial port; each tool begins its operation by sending special byte
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9 sequences to this serial port which are designed to interrupt the Calypso
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10 device boot process in the ROM bootloader.
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12 Three utilities are currently built as part of FreeCalypso loadtools:
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14 fc-iram & fc-xram These utilities are intended for FreeCalypso developers
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15 only. They load an S-record code image into IRAM or
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16 XRAM, respectively, induce a transfer of control to the
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17 loaded code, and then drop into a serial line pass-thru
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18 mode for the operator to interact with the thus loaded
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19 target code.
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21 fc-loadtool This utility is intended for both developers and end
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22 users. After establishing communication with the
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23 target, fc-loadtool drops into interactive operation.
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24 Once at the loadtool> prompt, you can peek and poke
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25 registers, and most importantly, dump (read) and load
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26 (program) the flash memory of the target device.
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28 Loadagent
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31 Both fc-loadtool and fc-xram work by first feeding a FreeCalypso-developed
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32 program called loadagent to the Calypso ROM bootloader; all further operations
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33 (loading code into XRAM or flash) are done via this loadagent. An S-record
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34 image of the loadagent program is required for fc-loadtool and fc-xram to work.
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35 That program is in turn built with the ARM7 toolchain.
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37 If you are working with the full freecalypso-sw suite, you presumably already
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38 have the proper ARM7 toolchain built and installed. To build loadagent, simply
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39 run 'make' in the ../target-utils tree.
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41 If you have downloaded a separately-packaged version of FreeCalypso loadtools,
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42 the package should have a prebuilt loadagent.srec image included, sparing
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43 non-developer users the nontrivial hurdle of having to build and install a
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44 special cross-compilation toolchain. The same loadagent binary is designed to
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45 work on all supported Calypso targets.
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47 Building and installing loadtools
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50 Normally the machine on which you build and install fc-loadtools would be your
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52 interact with Calypso phones by way of appropriate USB-to-phone cables. Just
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54 specific to a particular target device; instead you will select the target
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55 device at run time via a command line option. Hence you can build and install
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56 the host utilities (usual 'make' and 'make install') without limiting your
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57 setup to just one target phone type.
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59 However, if your intended target device is an Openmoko GTA02 (or GTA01)
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61 the Calypso part of these phones from the outside without going through the
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62 phone's application processor first. If you would like to use fc-loadtool to
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63 read or write the GSM flash memory of your GTA0x (load a different firmware
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67 1. The recommended way for FreeCalypso developers is to get a special serial
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69 fry your precious phone!) that would plug into the 2.5mm jack on the left
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70 side of the phone that is normally intended for a wired headset. This way
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71 you can use your regular build of fc-loadtool (and fc-iram & fc-xram) on
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72 your PC/Linux (or other) development host, no need to build anything for
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74 host and the Calypso part of your target phone - not going through the AP
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76 management, to power the Calypso block on and off, and to enable the headset
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77 jack "download" path, but it is much less burdensome than having to do the
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78 actual FreeCalypso work from the AP.
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81 standard practice in the world of basic (non-smart) cellular phones, and
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83 exactly the same as that used by Compal/Motorola - hence the same headset jack
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85 "T191 unlock cable") will also work for connecting from an external host
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89 image, it can be done from inside the phone (from the AP) without having to
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90 acquire special hardware (as in the cable described above). However, the
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92 do more work on the software. You will have to use a cross-compiler
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93 targeting the ARM/Linux AP environment (*not* the ARM7 cross-compiler used
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94 for the GSM firmware itself!) to build fc-loadtools to run on the GTA0x AP.
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99 If you've decided to build loadtools for the GTA0x AP, you'll need to make the
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103 need to provide yourself);
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109 * Change EXTRA_OBJ= to EXTRA_OBJ=gtapower.o, i.e., add gtapower.c (compiling
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110 into gtapower.o) to the build.
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114 Running fc-loadtool
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117 Once you've got loadtools built and installed, you can run fc-loadtool
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120 To operate on a Pirelli DP-L10 that appears as /dev/ttyUSB0:
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122 fc-loadtool -h pirelli /dev/ttyUSB0
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124 The usb2serial chip inside the phone is bus-powered and will be visible as
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125 /dev/ttyUSBx whether the phone battery is present or not. There are two ways
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128 1. Run the fc-loadtool command given above with the USB cable connected, but no
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140 power-off into a reboot, and you'll break into the bootloader.
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149 it off, then on if it was on already. The "download" path needs to be enabled
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150 (controlled from the AP) and fc-loadtool needs to be running on the external
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158 In this last scenario the specially built version of fc-loadtool running on the
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162 See loadtool.help for a detailed description of the functionality and commands
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166 Command line options
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167 ====================
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169 The fc-loadtool command lines shown above will usually be sufficient. However,
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170 here is the complete command line description for all 3 tools:
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172 fc-iram [options] ttyport iramimage.srec
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173 fc-xram [options] ttyport xramimage.srec [runbaud]
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174 fc-loadtool [options] ttyport
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180 The available options are common for all 3 utilities, with a few noted
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185 This option applies only to fc-loadtool and fc-xram. It specifies the
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186 pathname at which the required loadagent.srec image should be sought,
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191 This option is common for all 3 utilities. It selects the baud rate
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193 case of fc-iram, the selected baud rate will be in effect when the
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194 loaded IRAM image is jumped to and fc-iram drops into the serial tty
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201 This option is specific to fc-xram. It selects the baud rate to be
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204 rate that was used to load loadagent itself via the Calypso boot ROM
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206 115200 baud if no -b option was given either. Neither -b nor -B
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215 target device configuration to be used. More precisely, it constructs
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216 a pathname of the form /usr/local/share/freecalypso/%s.config, where %s
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220 The hardware configurations knows to the present release of FreeCalypso
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221 loadtools are gta02 and pirelli.
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223 -H /path/to/hwparam-file
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226 directly as the hardware parameter file pathname (absolute or relative)
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234 internal boot ROM. The default is 13 ms.
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238 This option does anything only when loadtools have been compiled to run
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241 modem power control upon startup, removing the need for manual
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