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+The utility being developed in this source directory will allow one to examine
+("in vitro") flash file system (FFS) images read out of TI GSM devices - or
+more precisely, out of GSM devices using a TI chipset and running TI's GSM
+firmware versions from the late Calypso era.  The FFS version in question is
+implemented in our own FreeCalypso GSM fw, also happens to be used by the
+original proprietary firmware on the Pirelli DP-L10, and on some devices like
+Openmoko GTA0x the use of this FFS format is required in order to make use of
+the factory IMEI and RF calibration data.
+
+This new tiffs utility is intended to replace the earlier mpffs-* utilities
+released in the summer of SE52 (A.D. 2013), and will also incorporate the
+additional examination functionality that was developed as part of the
+"pirollback" utilities.
+
+Naming
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+
+I have previously referred to the FFS format in question as Mokopir-FFS or
+MPFFS, from "Moko" and "Pirelli".  I was originally hesitant to call it TIFFS,
+as lacking the source code, I had no way of knowing whether the FFS format and
+implementation were of TI's own invention, or something that TI licensed as a
+black box from one of their many proprietary software partners.  (I was unable
+to identify it as any well-known, industry-standard FFS format, but absence of
+evidence is not evidence of absence.)  But now that we have TI's original source
+code which implements this FFS (first the MV100-0.1.rar source, then the full
+Leonardo one), complete with comments and a HISTORY file, we know that our FFS
+was invented and implemented by someone named Mads Meisner-Jensen at TI - I'm
+guessing in the SSA group in Nice, France.
+
+I am now making a naming transition from MPFFS to TIFFS: there is really no
+link between this FFS format and the Openmoko+Pirelli duo, other than the
+happenstance of me having first encountered this FFS on these two GSM device
+brands, and the name TIFFS is more neutrally-descriptive.