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1 TI's Calypso GSM/GPRS baseband processor chip has not one but two UART serial
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5 surprise), whereas the MODEM UART adds hardware flow control and autobaud. If
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10 In a classic modem design such as that present in the GTA0x smartphones made by
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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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17 development, debugging and factory production testing (which includes RF
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18 calibration and IMEI etc programming), rather than for "normal" end users.
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20 Normally this debug/development serial interface (called RVTMUX as will be
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21 explained momentarily) is hidden from "ordinary" users - for example, on FIC
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22 GTA0x phones it is wired to the analog headset jack through a hardware switch
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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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25 sequence **16379#, and then the firmware presents a hidden menu for switching
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27 RVTMUX.
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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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37 their USB port (rather than the charging function) is for their "PC sync"
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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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66 The FreeCalypso project has adopted the same general firmware architecture as
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67 that exhibited by TI's standard firmwares from the Moko/Pirelli time frame. We
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69 that includes the RVT module and the RVTMUX interface it presents. At the
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71 been integrated yet) this RVTMUX interface is put to the following uses in our
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77 * The ETM module and the associated FFS access protocol described below.
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84 those code layers.
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86 ETM and FFS access
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93 packets passing first through RVT, then through ETM, and can send responses
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94 passing through ETM, then through RVT back to the external host.
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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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99 location and any hardware register, cause the device to reset, etc.
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102 besides ETM_CORE is TMFFS (Test Mode for FFS), which is the external access
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103 channel to the device file system - see TIFFS-Overview. The TMFFS1 and TMFFS2
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106 RVTMUX channel to perform arbitrary read and write operations on the device
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112 TI made two different and entirely incompatible versions of the TMFFS protocol
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117 that TMFFS2 is both more capable and more reliable; my guess is that TMFFS1 was
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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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130 The leo2moko-r1 firmware produced by the FreeCalypso project in 2013-10
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131 implements TMFFS1, simply because that was the selected configuration in the
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132 found Leonardo source that transitional fw is based on, and that release was
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133 made before I learned RVTMUX, FFS, ETM and TMFFS properly. All future
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134 FreeCalypso firmwares will use TMFFS2, or at least that's the current plan.
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136 Host utility support
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139 As one would naturally expect, the FreeCalypso project has developed some host
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140 tools that allow a PC running GNU/Linux (or other Unix systems) to interface to
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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.