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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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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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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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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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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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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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90 acquire special hardware (as in the cable described above). However, the
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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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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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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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166 Command line options
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169 The fc-loadtool command lines shown above will usually be sufficient. However,
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174 fc-loadtool [options] ttyport
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181 This option applies only to fc-loadtool and fc-xram. It specifies the
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182 pathname at which the required loadagent.srec image should be sought,
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187 This option is common for all 3 utilities. It selects the baud rate
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190 loaded IRAM image is jumped to and fc-iram drops into the serial tty
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197 This option is specific to fc-xram. It selects the baud rate to be
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202 115200 baud if no -b option was given either. Neither -b nor -B
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252 specified S-record image into XRAM:
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254 * The default action, in the absence of additional command line arguments, is
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255 to drop into a serial tty pass-thru mode, just like fc-iram.
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257 * The alternative action is to invoke a 2nd program and pass the serial
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258 communication channel to it. This 2nd program invokation facility is intended
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259 primarily for passing the serial communication channel to rvinterf or rvtdump
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260 from the FreeCalypso software suite, not for launching any arbitrary 3rd-party
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261 programs from fc-xram.
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263 The intended usage scenario is that one builds a version of the FreeCalypso GSM
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264 firmware (or some subset thereof, such as an "in vivo" FFS editing agent) in the
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265 ramImage configuration, fc-xram is used to load that ramImage into the target
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266 device, and then the serial communication channel (RVTMUX) is immediately taken
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267 over by rvinterf or rvtdump.
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269 More detailed usage instructions will be written when the rvinterf tools reach
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270 a point of being usable by more than just the original developer; until then,
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271 read the source code.