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doc/Host-tools-overview: update for tiffs-8m
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5 on Compal phones.
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7 * fc-iram second program invokation mode fix: options for the second program
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8 are no longer misinterpreted as fc-iram options.
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10 * ADC calibration table /sys/adccal is now supported much like various RF
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11 parameter tables: it can be decoded from binary to our own ASCII format with
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12 fc-bin2rftab, it can be compiled back into binary with fc-cal2bin, and it can
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13 be uploaded with fc-fsio upload-rf-table.
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15 * New tiffs-mkfs utility can generate TIFFS images completely from scratch
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17 directory and file tree on the host system. The resulting image can then be
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18 flashed into a Calypso GSM device running FreeCalypso firmware.
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20 * A new target-utils program named lunadrv has been added: it is a driver for
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21 FreeCalypso Luna LCD, a special ad hoc hardware platform that has been
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22 implemented at FreeCalypso headquarters and which is currently not available
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23 to anyone else. Because of this FC-HQ-only hardware situation, this lunadrv
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24 program is not currently included in the standard build of target-utils and
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25 will not be included in packaged releases.
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29 * fc-loadtool changes:
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31 + Memory dump commands (dump2bin and dump2srec) have been reimplemented using
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33 the host in binary format instead of hex. This change speeds up the dump
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36 + Flash programming commands flash program-bin, program-m0 and program-srec
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38 improvement in flash programming times - see the updated
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39 doc/Loadtools-performance article.
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41 + New combined erase+program commands have been implemented: flash
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42 e-program-bin, e-program-m0 and e-program-srec. See the new
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43 doc/Flash-programming article for explanation of the intended usage.
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46 command - see doc/Loadtools-usage for the details.
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49 put into a script followed by other commands, and the following commands
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50 will execute if the erase-program-boot operation was successful.
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51 Previously this command always stopped script execution because of an
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55 target, producing a speed increase of 3.5x to 5x for the most common use
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64 + The step of feeding the IRAM code image to the Calypso boot ROM has been
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75 Mother sees on her Slackware reference system vs. what other users see on
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76 their different host systems, fc-loadtool now reports measured operation times
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77 for all lengthy operations: dump2bin, dump2srec and all flash programming
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79 singular operation of transferring an XRAM image. The new
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81 presents the performance numbers which you SHOULD be getting if your host
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82 system works as well as the Mother's Slackware reference.
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85 systems with FTDI adapters has been solved and documented in the same
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86 doc/Loadtools-performance article.
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90 + Added support for Spansion S29/S71PL032J and S29/S71PL064J flash chips:
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92 be used in future mass-produced FreeCalypso modem products. Historical
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94 our purposes.
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96 + The implementation of flash program-m0 and program-srec commands (needed
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97 for flashing classic TI fw images with large gaps between discontiguous
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99 our generally preferred flash program-bin command: same performance, same
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100 progress indication, same CRC-32 verification at the end.
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103 we now collect and check for the 00 04 bytes after the >p response, and we
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104 also collect the checksum byte which the boot ROM sends with its >c response.
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105 The old code which failed to collect the checksum byte after >c worked only
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106 by luck.
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114 to be used instead of the old -h gtm900 config which has been removed; while
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115 most GTM900 variants have 4 MiB flash chips, some have been found to contain
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116 S71PL064J (8 MiB) flash instead.
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119 removed in the next release; please use the new -h fic target configuration
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120 instead.
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123 special configuration for running on the application processor of OM GTA02
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124 has been removed. It has been replaced with a generalized mechanism for
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125 target boot control - see the new doc/Target-boot-control article.
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126
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127 * mokosrec2bin default fill byte has been changed from 0x00 to 0xFF, producing
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129 were to be programmed as-is.
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130
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131 * A pair of little ad hoc programs has been been added to the FC host tools
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132 suite for the purpose of dumping the Calypso chip's internal DSP mask ROM -
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133 see doc/DSP-ROM-dump.
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134
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135 * fc-fsio got some new commands for cleaning stale junk from FFS, typically
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136 needed when converting modems from alien manufacturers to FreeCalypso fw:
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138 + rm deletes an elementary object (file, empty directory or symlink); rm -f
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139 does the same but the case where the object to be deleted does not exist is
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140 treated as not-an-error.
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141
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142 + rm-subtree deletes an entire subtree of directories and files starting with
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143 a given directory (equivalent of UNIX rm -r); -f option is also available
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144 like with plain rm.
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145
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146 + cleandir removes all content of a directory (all files and subdirectories
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147 and their content), but keeps the remaining empty directory.
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149 * Added some fc-fsio command scripts (installed in /opt/freecalypso/scripts)
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150 for preening GTM900-B and GTM900-P FFS content when converting these modem
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151 modules to FreeCalypso.
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153 * New pcm-sms-decode utility can decode /pcm/SMS binary files read out of FFS
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154 maintained by certain firmwares (Pirelli DP-L10 is the prime use case),
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155 displaying the stored SMS content in human-readable form.
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156
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157 Changes from fc-host-tools-r10 to fc-host-tools-r11:
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158
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159 * Bugfix: the ability to override CFLAGS= from the top level (see INSTALL)
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160 has been fixed and now actually works as intended.
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162 * New developer utility fc-bin2rftab can read or extract RF parameter tables
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163 from binary files and convert them into our FreeCalypso ASCII format.
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164
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165 * The way in which fc-loadtool handles different flash configurations has been
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166 completely redesigned; there should be no user impact on any previously
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167 supported target, but the new architecture makes it much easier to add
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168 support for new target devices and allows the possibility of different flash
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169 chip types (autodetected at run time) on the same -h target. See the new
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170 doc/Loadtool-flash-support article for the details.
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171
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172 * fc-loadtool supports two new targets: Huawei GTM900 (-h gtm900) and
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173 Motorola W220 (-h w220).
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175 * Iota poweroff command in the target-utils suite (primarily affecting the
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176 loadagent target program used by loadtools) now programs the VRPCAUX register
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177 like TI's TCS211 firmware does before sending the DEVOFF command. This
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178 change fixes the erratic behaviour that was occurring on TI/FC development
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179 boards (D-Sample and FCDEV3B) when fc-loadtool (or fc-iram with some
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180 specialized target-utils program) was entered via the RESET button rather
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181 than PWON, followed by the soft poweroff operation and another switch-on via
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182 PWON. For more details, please refer to doc/Target-utils and the
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183 Calypso-test-reset article in the freecalypso-docs repository.
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185 * Aside from the just-described poweroff change, a lot of clean-up has been
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186 done throughout the target-utils suite: removed all use of bogo-millisecond
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187 delays which were previously copied from OsmocomBB; all programs with ABB
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188 access functionality can access the VRPCAUX register for manual debugging;
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189 helloapp clean-up; new watchdog experimentation commands in flash-boot-test;
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190 simtest no longer requires an explicit abbinit command. A new
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191 doc/Target-utils document has been written describing this target-utils
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192 suite.
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194 * Loadtools configuration for Mot C155/156 target (-h c155) fixed to use WS=4
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195 memory timing setting as used by the official fw on this hardware, as opposed
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196 to the previously-used WS=3 setting that was blindly copied from OsmocomBB.
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198 * fc-xram got a new -j option for JTAG mode; see doc/Loadtools-usage.
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199
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200 * Documentation updates for the new bits of knowledge learned from the
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201 examination of a Sony Ericsson J100 phone: no code changes were needed to
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202 support flash manipulation and RF calibration data extraction on this model,
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203 but this is the first time the Mother got her hands on one of these phones,
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204 hence there was no documentation previously.
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205
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206 Changes from fc-host-tools-r9a to fc-host-tools-r10:
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208 * For those who need to run our tools on a 64-bit host system (or more
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209 precisely, any system on which pointers are longer than the basic int type),
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210 the present release includes fixes for null pointer passing constructs
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211 throughout the code base. The original code was only correct for classic
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212 systems on which ints and pointers are equivalent for K&R C function argument
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213 passing purposes.
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214
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215 * The back end program supporting fcup-* -R mode has been extended to support
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216 sending strings longer than 254 characters using the extended version of the
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217 AT-over-RVTMUX mechanism supported by newer firmwares - see the updates in
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218 the doc/User-phone-tools article. A new unterm command has been added to
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219 fc-shell for the same functionality.
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221 * New developer utility fc-rftab2c can convert per-band RF parameter tables
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222 into C code snippets for inclusion into FreeCalypso firmware sources.
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223
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224 * New target utility calversion can sometimes identify unknown Calypso chip
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225 versions - see doc/Calypso-chip-versions.
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226
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227 * New target utility simtest has been developed for the purpose of facilitating
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228 hardware troubleshooting - see doc/SIM-hardware-debugging.
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229
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230 * The tiny (120 bytes) flash-boot-wa.srec code piece which has been removed in
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231 fc-host-tools-r9 has been reinstated; it is not currently needed for anything
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232 (it was originally developed as a workaround for a problem that only affected
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233 one single defective board), but removing previously-released functionality
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234 for no good reason is not the way of FOSS. See doc/Flash-boot-wa for more
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235 details.
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236
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237 * Compilation and installation: the Makefile hierarchy has been reworked to
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238 allow CC= and CFLAGS= to be overridden from the top for the entire package,
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239 and also to allow installation in a staging location - see INSTALL.
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240
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241 Changes from fc-host-tools-r9 to fc-host-tools-r9a:
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242
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243 * fc-loadtool can now correctly program the flash on Mot C155/156 phones:
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244 it turns out that their flash is like the one on TI's D-Sample board
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245 and needs the same partition quirks.
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247 Changes from fc-host-tools-r8 to fc-host-tools-r9:
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249 * mokosrec2bin utility added: it was originally written as a reverse
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251 repository, but it has since been repurposed into a legitimate development
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252 tool.
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254 * Added workarounds for FTDI USB-serial adapters that feed previously
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255 accumulated serial Rx bytes or outright garbage to newly started serial I/O
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256 programs:
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258 + fcup-atinterf back-end program for fcup-* does a sleep of 20 ms followed by
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259 tcflush(target_fd, TCIFLUSH) on startup to flush any previously accumulated
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260 serial Rx buffer garbage that would otherwise cause breakage. The two
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261 delays in the deep sleep wakeup logic (see doc/Deep-sleep-support) have been
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262 reduced from 50 to 30 ms each, thus the total length of initial delays has
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263 been reduced from 100 to 80 ms.
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264
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265 + In the rvinterf suite (see doc/Rvinterf-tools) a similar startup delay has
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266 been added in the special corner case of a non-interactive one-shot
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267 operation being commanded with rvinterf also being launched from the client
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268 program with -p; see the "Startup synchronization hack" section in the new
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269 Rvinterf-tools document.
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271 * fcup-smdump now restores the character set selection (AT+CSCS) setting on the
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272 target to the default "IRA" (ASCII) upon successful completion, after
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273 initially setting it to "HEX" for the operation; the intent of this change is
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274 to avoid leaving a strange state for anyone using the AT command interface
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275 manually after fcup-smdump.
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277 * fcup-smsend bugfix: the corner case of omitting the destination address
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278 argument with -W now works as documented.
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280 * fcup-settime: minor code rearrangement should slightly reduce the unavoidable
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281 delay between the time retrieval on the host and that time being set on the
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282 target.
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284 * A hack that was added in fc-host-tools-r5 solely to support one (1) defective
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285 FCDEV3B board with a particular flash boot defect has been removed.
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287 * A number of documentation updates have been made: Deep-sleep-support and
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288 Rvinterf-tools articles are new, RVTMUX and TIFFS-Overview write-ups got
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289 long-overdue major updates, plus a number of minor updates as usual.
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291 * For those who build the rarely needed ARM7 gcc toolchain from source, an old
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292 bug in the toolchain/build+install.sh script which was masked on the Mother's
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293 Slackware system for some reason has been fixed.
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295 Changes from fc-host-tools-r7 to fc-host-tools-r8:
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297 * fc-loadtool can now correctly program the flash on TI's D-Sample board
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298 after implementing the needed quirk for the Intel 28F640W30B flash chip.
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300 * target-utils (loadagent and friends) serial output code changed to wait for
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301 the Tx FIFO not full condition instead of FIFO empty; this change makes these
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302 target utilities actually utilize the Tx FIFO feature of Calypso UARTs.
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304 * New c1xx-calextr utility can extract the factory RF calibration values for
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305 Mot C1xx phones from a dump of their flash; see doc/Compal-calibration.
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307 * Support for RF tables in FreeCalypso ASCII format (see doc/RF_tables) is
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308 more complete: there is an ASCII format for the full 512 byte Tx ramps table,
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309 any ASCII RF table can be converted to native binary with fc-cal2bin, most
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310 ASCII RF tables can be uploaded directly into FFS with fc-fsio's new
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311 upload-rf-table command.
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313 * fc-cal2text change: Tx ramps tables are now emitted in the new ASCII format
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314 with one file for the whole table, not split into 16 single ramp template
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315 files any more.
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317 * fc-fsio changes:
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319 + new write-battery-table and write-charging-config commands for uploading
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320 FreeCalypso-invented battery discharge threshold tables and charging config
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321 files into the FFS of our FC devices with built-in compilation to binary;
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323 + added upload-rf-table command for uploading ASCII RF tables directly into
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324 FFS with built-in compilation to binary;
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325
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326 + pirelli-magnetite-init command now copies the previously missed
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327 /gsm/rf/afcdac record.
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329 * fc-tmsh can now upload audio FIR coefficient sets from FIR coefficient table
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330 files with the new auw-fir command.
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332 * The audio mode configurations that have been added in fc-host-tools-r7 have
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333 been moved to a separate fc-audio-config repository and are no longer a part
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334 of the core FC host tools package.
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336 * The UI development aid utility fc-lcdemu which has been excluded from the
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337 default build set since fc-host-tools-r5 has been moved to a separate
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338 freecalypso-ui-dev repository and is no longer a part of the core FC host
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339 tools package.
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340
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341 * rvinterf -X mechanism which pipes LCD output to fc-lcdemu now always inverts
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342 the RGB565 values as needed, and the -v option has been removed; see usage
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343 documentation in the freecalypso-ui-dev repository.
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345 * fc-shell: added key command for sending sp MMI CONFIG KEY_SEQUENCE=<string>
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346 with a lot less typing, and keydown and keyup commands that do the same for
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347 KEY_PRESS and KEY_RELEASE "config" sysprim commands.
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349 * There is a new suite of tools for talking to the AT command interface
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350 provided by FreeCalypso phones and modems, primarily for sending and
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351 retrieving SMS - see doc/User-phone-tools for more info.
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353 Changes from fc-host-tools-r6 to fc-host-tools-r7:
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355 * The way in which loadtools, rvinterf and miscellaneous tools operate on
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356 serial ports for the purpose of talking to Calypso GSM devices has been
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357 majorly reworked: the serial port handling code has been factored out into
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358 libserial, and the new libserial uses Linux-specific direct ioctl calls
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359 instead of generic termios. The effect is that you can now use the GSM-
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360 specific high serial baud rates (up to 812500 bps) with FTDI adapters
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361 (like the FT2232D adapter commonly used with FCDEV3B) with the standard
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364 * Added new utilities tiaud-compile and tiaud-mkvol for generating *.cfg and
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365 *.vol binary files for the audio mode switching facility of TI's RiViera
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366 Audio Service, to be uploaded under /aud into FreeCalypso GSM devices.
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368 * A set of audio mode tables is built and installed in
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369 /opt/freecalypso/aud-fcdev3b for uploading into /aud on FCDEV3B boards.
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370
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371 Changes from fc-host-tools-r5 to fc-host-tools-r6:
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373 * loadtools and rvinterf now set TIOCEXCL on the tty to prevent the common
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374 error scenario of multiple processes trying to read from the same serial
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375 port.
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376
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377 * fc-loadtool: added a batch operation mode whereby the tool executes a given
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378 command script, cleans up (usually powers off) the target and exits.
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379
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380 * fc-loadtool exec command: scripts without slashes in the given name are now
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381 sought in the current directory.
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382
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383 * fc-fsio format command: if the FFS is already formatted, the tool now prints
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384 the error returned by the FFS code in the target fw, but does not stop the
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385 execution of scripts; this change makes production scripts rerun-able.
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386
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387 * exitcodes.h file installed in /opt/freecalypso/include/rvinterf: added
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388 ERROR_RFFAIL definition for use by fc-rfcal-tools.
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389
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390 Changes from fc-host-tools-r4 to fc-host-tools-r5:
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391
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392 * New install location: everything is now under /opt/freecalypso instead of
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393 /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share/freecalypso.
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394
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395 * loadtools: added support for dsample (TI D-Sample) and fcfam (FreeCalypso
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396 hardware family starting with FCDEV3B) targets.
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398 * loadagent: UART autodetection now works not only with Calypso boot ROM
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399 version 0300 found in the common Calypso devices, but also with the older
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400 version 0200 found in the older Calypso silicon on early D-Sample boards.
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401
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402 * loadtools support for C139/140 target: use -h compal -c 1004 command line
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403 options instead of the previous -h compal -c 1003 to support the newer
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404 versions of C139/140 boot code which expect "1004" instead of the more
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405 familiar "1003" in the serially downloaded code image. The new -c 1004
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406 option ("1004" signature bytes) should work with all currently known
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407 Mot/Compal boot code versions, thus -c 1003 is retained only for backward
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408 compatibility with existing usage.
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409
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410 * fc-fsio: one can now type ls -l and not just the ll shorthand,
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411 pirelli-get-imei and pirelli-magnetite-init commands added (former
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412 fc-getpirimei and fc-pirhackinit separate utilities absorbed into fc-fsio),
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413 help facility added.
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414
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415 * fc-tmsh changes:
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417 + fc-tmsh now takes the -p option and supports one-shot command invokation
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418 like fc-fsio and fc-shell;
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420 + added support for L1/RF test mode commands and other TM3 protocol commands
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421 (omr, omw, oabbr, oabbw, tm3ver);
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423 + added ETM_AUDIO commands aul, aus, aur and auw.
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424
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425 * fc-olddump renamed to fc-memdump, can now use either TM3 or ETM memory read
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426 commands.
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428 * tiffs: added -O option to parse FFS images from the ancient 20020917 firmware
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429 on the D-Sample.
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431 * New in vitro analysis utilities: fc-cal2text and tiaud-decomp.
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432
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433 * Added tools for working with ringtone melodies: fc-e1decode and fc-e1gen for
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434 loudspeaker melodies (see doc/Melody_E1) and fc-buzplay (plus target-side
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435 buzplayer.srec) for devices that use a piezoelectric buzzer.
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437 * rvinterf: added support for the keepalive mechanism, see the description in
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438 doc/RVTMUX.
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440 * rvinterf & fc-shell: added support for the experimental TCH rerouting feature
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441 of FreeCalypso Citrine firmware.
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443 * fc-fr2tch, fc-gsm2vm, fc-tch2fr, fc-vm2hex: new utilities for converting
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444 GSM 06.10 FR codec bits between different formats.
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445
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446 * c139explore & pirexplore: added host shell script wrappers invoking
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447 fc-compalram and fc-iram with the respective target binaries.
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448
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449 * Internal cleanup and refactoring in various places.
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450
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451 Changes from fc-host-tools-r3 to fc-host-tools-r4:
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452
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453 * Shellcode-based Compal phone break-in utility tfc139 reworked in a new way
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454 that should work with all Mot C1xx firmwares beyond the original TFC139
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455 target: see doc/Compal-unlock and doc/TFC139-breakin for the details.
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456
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457 * Documentation and cosmetic code changes to reflect the new understanding of
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458 TI's TM (Test Mode) predating ETM (Enhanced Test Mode): see doc/RVTMUX for
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459 a detailed explanation.
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460
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461 * Added support for the old non-enhanced Test Mode memory read command in the
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462 form of fc-tmsh omr command, fc-fsio omemdump command and fc-olddump utility.
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463
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464 * rvtdump and rvinterf recognize the old all-ASCII GPF trace format emitted by
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465 the D-Sample firmware from 20020917 and print these traces as ASCII instead
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466 of hex.
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467
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468 * fc-dspapidump fixed to be independent of host byte order.