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TIFFS in vitro reader started
author Michael Spacefalcon <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
date Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:05:01 +0000
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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.
+("in vitro") flash file system (FFS) images read out of TI GSM devices; see
+doc/TIFFS at the top level of the freecalypso-sw source tree for more info.
 
 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
-======
-
-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.
+See the abovementioned doc/TIFFS blurb for an explanation of the name change
+from MPFFS to TIFFS.