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patch from fixeria: doc change from SE K2x0 to K2xx Since their discovery in late 2022, Sony Ericsson K200 and K220 phones were collectively referred to as SE K2x0 in FreeCalypso documentation. However, now that SE K205 has been discovered as yet another member of the same family (same PCBA in different case), it makes more sense to refer to the whole family as SE K2xx.
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1 [Historical note: this document was originally written in 2014 when the vision
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2 of FreeCalypso was very different from what it is today. Since then we have
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3 transitioned from making aftermarket hacks on pre-existing Calypso phones and
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4 modems to producing and supporting our own FreeCalypso hardware products, and
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5 our firmware work has changed from a nebulous dream to stable production code.
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6 The ways in which we approach various technical aspects have changed
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7 accordingly, but much of our documentation has been slow to catch up. The
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8 documentation is now being updated, but there may still be some passages where
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9 the old world view shines through.]
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11 TI's Calypso GSM/GPRS baseband processor chip has not one but two UART serial
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12 ports, called "MODEM" and "IrDA" in the hardware documentation. In hardware
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13 terms, both support basic data-leads-only UART operation at a fixed baud rate,
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14 but their extended capabilities differ: the IrDA UART adds IrDA capability (no
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15 surprise), whereas the MODEM UART adds hardware flow control and autobaud. If
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16 one is not implementing an actual IrDA interface, then the so-called "IrDA"
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17 UART becomes a strict subset of the MODEM one in terms of hw capabilities -
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18 just an extra UART, but a somewhat less capable one.
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20 In a classic modem design such as that present in the GTA0x smartphones made by
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21 FIC/Openmoko, the Calypso presents a standard AT command interface on its MODEM
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22 UART port. (In the case of GTA0x phones this serial channel is wired to the
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23 phone's application processor; in a standalone modem it would be wired to a
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24 USB-serial chip or even to a classic RS-232 DB25 port.) However, what is less
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25 known is that the standard firmware for such modems simultaneously presents an
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26 entirely different interface on the IrDA UART - an interface intended for
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27 development, debugging and factory production testing (which includes RF
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28 calibration and IMEI etc programming), rather than for "normal" end users.
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30 Normally this debug/development serial interface (called RVTMUX as will be
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31 explained momentarily) is hidden from "ordinary" users - for example, on FIC
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32 GTA0x phones it is wired to the analog headset jack through a hardware switch
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33 which needs to be enabled through a GPIO signal from the AP. On Mot C139 and
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34 its siblings the situation is similar: one needs to key in the secret magic
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35 sequence **16379#, and then the firmware presents a hidden menu for switching
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36 the analog headset jack between its "normal" function and the UART carrying
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37 RVTMUX.
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39 But there also exist some oddball devices on which the RVTMUX interface is
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40 presented "in your face". The Pirelli DP-L10 phone has a USB charging port
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41 which is also wired (through a CP2102 USB-serial chip) to the IrDA UART on the
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42 Calypso - that's right, IrDA, not MODEM - a design decision with which this
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43 hacker strongly disagrees. (It'll definitely be wired to the MODEM UART
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44 instead on our own semi-clone of this phone, but I digress.) Apparently Foxconn
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45 (the designers of this phone) had no desire to provide a standard AT command
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46 interface, and instead the only "official" way to use the "data" function of
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47 their USB port (rather than the charging function) is for their "PC sync"
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48 feature, i.e., their proprietary Weendoze software. And guess what, their
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49 proprietary "PC sync" feature works over TI's RVTMUX interface, as that is
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50 what's presented on Calypso's IrDA UART behind the CP2102!
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52 OK, so what is this RVTMUX? RV stands for RiViera, an application framework
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53 which TI added to their GSM firmware suite in the early 2000s, T stands for
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54 trace, and MUX stands for multiplexor. It's a binary packet interface, although
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55 many of these packets contain ASCII debug messages inside. The framing format
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56 is the same in both directions: each packet begins and ends with an STX (0x02)
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57 byte, all payload bytes except 0x02 and 0x10 are sent literally, and there is a
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59 general principle as asynchronous HDLC (RFC 1662): packets can contain any
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60 binary data, and the framing provides packet boundaries - although TI's version
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61 is a little less robust than async-HDLC when it comes to recovering after lost
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62 synchronization.
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64 The firmware suite component responsible for actually sending and receiving
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65 these packets over the assigned UART port (usually IrDA, but can be MODEM too,
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66 as on Compal phones for example) is called RVT (RiViera Trace), and it
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67 implements a MUX function. There are several logical channels multiplexed over
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68 one physical serial port, and the first byte of every packet indicates which
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69 logical channel it belongs to. Any component within the GSM firmware suite can
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70 send packets to RVT for transmission on this serial interface, and can also
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71 register to receive packets beginning with a particular type ID byte.
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73 Debug trace output
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74 ==================
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76 All GSM device firmwares that are based on TI's Calypso chipset reference fw
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77 continuously emit quite voluminous debug trace output on their RVTMUX serial
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78 port, whether it is hidden or exposed on a given device. Like all RVTMUX
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79 traffic, this debug trace output takes the form of binary packets as explained
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80 above, but the content of these packets is mostly ASCII with some binary header
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82 from a GSM device's RVTMUX port, parses the packet structure and displays this
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83 output in line-oriented pure ASCII with all binary parts decoded.
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85 Test Mode commands
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86 ==================
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88 The other major use of the RVTMUX interface is sending so-called Test Mode
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89 commands from an external host to a running GSM device. Depending on the
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90 firmware version, a GSM device can be commanded to do any of the following
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91 things through this mechanism:
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93 * Exercise RF test modes, e.g., transmit continuously at a set frequency and
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94 power level;
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95 * Read and write arbitrary memory locations in the Calypso ARM7 address space;
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96 * Read and write ABB chip registers;
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97 * Reboot or power off;
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98 * Access and manipulate the device's flash file system (FFS).
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100 In the segment of history of interest to us TI has produced two different
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101 target firmware components that can receive, interpret and act upon Test Mode
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102 command packets:
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104 * The original Test Mode component of Layer 1, called L1TM or TML1: this
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105 component handles all RF test modes (needed for RF calibration on device
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106 production lines), and originally it also implemented memory and ABB register
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107 read and write commands, and provided access to TMFFS1 (see below). In the
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109 the "TM" RVTMUX channel (RVT packet type 0x14), so it would receive all TM
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110 packets sent to the device.
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113 of the old TM in L1) with RVT as the handler for the "TM" RVTMUX channel, and
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117 ETM, then through RVT back to the external host. If a given fw version
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119 host would send exactly the same binary command packets to exercise RF test
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120 modes, but inside the firmware they now pass through ETM on their way to L1TM.
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122 The ETM_CORE module contained within ETM itself provides some low-level debug
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123 commands: by sending the right binary command packets to the GSM device via the
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124 RVTMUX serial channel, an external host can examine or modify any memory
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125 location and any hardware register, cause the device to reset, etc. Prior to
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126 ETM some of these functions (but not all) could be exercised through older TM3
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127 commands, but in FreeCalypso we became familiar with the ETM versions of these
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128 commands long before the older ones because we got the ETM component in full
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129 source form, whereas the sole surviving copy of TCS211 that serves as our golden
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130 reference came with L1TM in binary object form like the rest of L1, and we got
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131 to source-reconstructing it only much later.
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133 Our TCS211 reference fw has both ETM and L1TM, thus it accepts both ETM and TM3
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134 command packets; the same holds for our current production firmwares that are
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135 based on this TCS211 reference. ETM commands (including TMFFS2, see below) also
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136 work on Pirelli's fw, but Mot/Compal's original fw for the C139 has only the
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137 original non-enhanced Test Mode, not ETM.
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138
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139 FFS access via TM/ETM
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140 =====================
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141
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142 One of the essential facilities provided in one form or another in all known
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143 incarnations of the Test Mode mechanism is the ability to access and manipulate
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144 the GSM device's flash file system (FFS). See TIFFS-Overview for a description
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145 of this file system. TI's TMFFS1 and TMFFS2 protocols provide a command and
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146 response packet interface to the FFS API functions inside the fw, and enable an
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147 external host connected to the GSM device via the RVTMUX channel to perform
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148 arbitrary read and write operations on the device file system.
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149
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150 In the segment of history of interest to us TI has produced two different
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151 and entirely incompatible versions of the TMFFS protocol: TMFFS1 and TMFFS2.
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152 Or rather, what is now called TMFFS1 was originally just TMFFS, and then came
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153 TMFFS2. TMFFS2 works only through ETM, whereas TMFFS1 predates ETM: in the
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154 original implementation the tm_ffs() function in the FFS code was called from
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155 L1TM code.
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157 Our copy of TCS211 reference fw includes the source for both TMFFS1 and TMFFS2;
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158 it is theoretically possible to build a firmware image that includes both TMFFS
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159 versions (they won't conflict because they respond to different command
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160 packets), but it is pretty clear that TI never intended to have both enabled
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161 at the same time. Our copy of TCS211 came with TMFFS1 enabled and we didn't
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162 change it when we made the moko12 (leo2moko-r1) fw release for the Openmoko
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163 community (the previous proprietary mokoN firmwares also implement TMFFS1),
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164 but we have subsequently switched to TMFFS2 for our current TCS211-based work.
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165 Our current production firmwares implement TMFFS2.
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167 Pirelli's fw implements TMFFS2: we don't have any source for this fw, but our
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168 FreeCalypso host utilities written to talk the TMFFS2 protocol based on our
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169 available TCS211 source work beautifully when run against Pirelli's fw.
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171 Use in FreeCalypso
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172 ==================
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174 Our current production firmwares for FreeCalypso modems faithfully follow the
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175 architecture of TI's TCS211 without any fundamental changes. Thus the
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176 functionality which we present via RVTMUX is exactly the same as TI's original:
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177 our firmwares emit the same 3 kinds of debug traces (RV, L1 and GPF) as various
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178 pre-existing ones, and for Test Mode functionality we have ETM, L1TM and TMFFS2.
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180 We have adopted ETM and TMFFS2 as the standard combination for FreeCalypso,
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181 i.e., ETM_CORE for memory and ABB register reads and writes and TMFFS2 for
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182 external FFS access. We needed to develop our own host tools for operating on
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183 GSM device FFS via one of the two TMFFS protocols, and after studying the fw
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184 source implementing both, I (Space Falcon) came to the conclusion that TMFFS2
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185 is both more capable and more reliable; my guess is that TMFFS1 was likely kept
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186 around only because some of TI's crappy Weendoze host software depended on it.
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187 (See chipsetsw/drivers/drv_app/ffs/board/tmffs.c in leo2moko or tcs211-fcmodem
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188 if you would like to judge for yourself.)
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190 We have the following host tools for communicating with TI-based GSM firmwares
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191 (both our own and some of the existing proprietary ones):
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193 rvtdump This tool produces a human-readable dump of all output emitted
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194 by a TI-based GSM fw in the form of RVTMUX binary packets. It
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195 can also log this dump to a file.
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197 rvinterf This tool is a superset of rvtdump: it not only dumps and/or
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198 logs all output from the GSM fw, but also provides a mechanism
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199 for sending command packets to it.
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201 Rvinterf is the engine behind the following host tools that send Test Mode
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202 commands to a target:
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204 fc-tmsh This is our basic tool for sending Test Mode commands to a
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205 running GSM fw. It is strictly asynchronous in that commands
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206 entered by the operator get sent to the target, and any response
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207 packets received from the target are displayed as they come in.
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208 The tool has no knowledge of any correspondence between commands
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209 being sent and whatever responses they should elicit, i.e., it
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210 is perfectly suited for experimental discovery of firmware
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211 behaviour in response to Test Mode commands.
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213 This tool was written before we realized that there was/is an
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214 older, more basic Test Mode predating ETM, hence in many place
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215 we say "ETM" when we really should have said "TM". Oh well...
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217 fc-fsio This tool speaks the TMFFS2 protocol and allows a user or
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221 lock-step; a single user command may translate into a large
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222 number of ETM/TMFFS2 command packet exchanges.
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224 fc-shell This tool is asynchronous like fc-tmsh, but instead of talking
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225 and listening on the TM/ETM RVTMUX channel, it talks and listens
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227 added in FreeCalypso. fc-shell can be used to issue system
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228 primitive commands to GPF (and to see firmware responses to
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229 them), and to talk AT commands via RVTMUX.
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230
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235 an original FreeCalypso invention: communicating with the AT command interpreter
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237 standard AT command interface (the product is either a GSM/GPRS modem for which
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238 this AT command interface is the sole mode of usage or a feature phone that
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240 dedicated UART separate from RVTMUX.
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242 However, in the case of our FreeCalypso family of projects about 2 years had
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243 passed between our first functional GSM fw attempts in 2015 and us successfully
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244 building our own development board in 2017; during this time we had to work on
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245 various crippled pre-existing Calypso devices, and many of them had only one
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246 UART practically accessible. In response to this situation we developed a way
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247 to pass AT commands over RVTMUX. We created a new RVTMUX channel for this
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248 interface and assigned it RVT packet type 0x1A. Packets sent from an external
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249 host to the GSM device carry AT commands and SMS string input, whereas packets
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250 flowing the other way carry ATI's responses to commands and asynchronous
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251 notifications such as incoming calls. The host utility for talking AT commands
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252 to a FreeCalypso GSM device via RVTMUX is fc-shell, described above.
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254 Now that we have built a proper FreeCalypso development board with two UARTs,
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255 the use of this AT-over-RVTMUX hack is deprecated for general usage: this hack
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256 does not support any data services (CSD or GPRS), and even for SMS it is
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257 crippled because maximum-length messages cannot be sent in the more capable PDU
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258 mode. However, it still comes in handy during certain casual testing sessions,
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259 and it is required if one needs to run our FreeCalypso firmware on Mot C1xx or
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260 Pirelli DP-L10 hardware.
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262 Keepalive mechanism
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265 Another FreeCalypso addition to TI's RVTMUX interface is our keepalive mechanism
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266 for the voice pseudo-modem hack on Mot C1xx targets. The FreeCalypso family
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267 includes many subprojects, and one of these subprojects involves running modem-
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268 like firmware (control via AT commands only, no local UI) on Mot C1xx phones.
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269 Having a device that was originally made to be a phone with LCD and buttons
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270 turn into a serially-controlled pseudo-modem (LCD stays dark, buttons do
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271 nothing) feels quite weird, and this situation is exacerbated by the flashing
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272 requirement: the only way to run our pseudo-modem fw on Mot C1xx phones is to
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273 flash it, there is no way to run it out of RAM without disturbing the phone's
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277 VPM configuration, they implement the following keepalive logic: if the phone
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278 is powered on and running our fw, but the charging power source is not plugged
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279 in, the fw sends periodic keepalive queries out the serial port to see if there
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280 is a running rvinterf process on the other end of the wire, and automatically
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281 powers off if there is no keepalive response.
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283 Code has been added to rvinterf to respond with a keepalive answer packet when
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284 a keepalive query packet is received; the feature has been implemented on the
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285 rvinterf side first, and then subsequently in our Magnetite fw for C1xx targets.