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1 There is a new feature in loadtools (fc-loadtool & friends) and rvinterf as of |
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2 fc-host-tools-r12: target boot control. In a typical development environment |
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3 where FC host tools run on a general-purpose PC or laptop and communicate with |
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4 various Calypso targets via general-purpose serial or USB-serial ports, adapters |
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5 and cables, there is generally no way for the host computer running FC host |
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6 tools to directly command the Calypso target to power on and/or reboot - instead |
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7 such control must be performed "out of band" by the operator pressing the PWON |
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8 or RESET button on the target device; some targets may even require complex |
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9 battery manipulations. However, there may be more elaborate (less casual) |
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10 setups where FC host tools run on a special kind of host system which does have |
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11 some means to directly control power and reset to an associated Calypso target: |
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13 * The Mother has a plan to produce a special FreeCalypso UART+JTAG Adapter, or |
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14 FC-UJA. This FC-UJA will be a special FT2232D adapter whose Channel A will |
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15 operate in MPSSE mode, connecting to the Calypso target's JTAG and nTESTRESET |
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16 signals, whereas Channel B will act as a standard UART, i.e., a ttyUSB device. |
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17 This FC-UJA needs to be built as a prerequisite before embarking on the |
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18 ambitious HSMBP (Handset Motherboard Prototype) project, as the special |
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19 adapter will be required for working with the HSMBP in development. When |
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20 FC-UJA becomes a reality, FC host tools running on a development host with |
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21 this adapter will need to be given the ability to issue nTESTRESET pulses to |
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22 the target through the adapter's MPSSE+GPIO channel; this nTESTRESET pulse |
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23 will cause the Calypso target to deep-reset, power on and boot. |
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25 * FC host tools (particularly fc-loadtool) may run on the application processor |
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26 of a smartphone such as Openmoko GTA02. In such environments the AP will have |
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27 special ad hoc control signals (typically GPIOs) to the modem, at the minimum |
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28 controlling the modem's PWON line. OM GTA02 added an overriding control of |
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29 overall power to the modem; other designs may reasonably add control of the |
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30 modem's RESET line. |
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32 * There may be special commercial applications in which one or more Calypso |
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33 modems are subservient to a control processor that acts similarly to the AP |
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34 of a smartphone, with that control processor not only communicating with its |
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35 slave modems via UARTs, but also controlling their power and reset. |
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37 Where does the desire for target boot control in loadtools and rvinterf come |
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38 from? Consider the conventional usage model where no target boot control |
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39 exists: you first run fc-loadtool or fc-iram or fc-xram or rvinterf on your |
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40 target /dev/ttyXXX, then press the PWON or RESET button on the target. Now |
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41 suppose that the finger-actuated button has been replaced with some magic |
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42 command that can be executed on the host system to produce the same effect - |
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43 now what? If the usage model stays the same, then you have to first run your |
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44 fc-loadtool or fc-iram or fc-xram or rvinterf command same as before, then as |
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45 it sits there waiting for the target to boot, you have to open another terminal |
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46 window, get another ssh session into the system or whatever, and run the magic |
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47 command that replaces the manual button press. Very cumbersome, hence the |
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48 desire for a better way. |
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50 Support for target boot control in FC host tools consists of a new -P option |
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51 implemented in all of loadtools programs and in rvinterf, as well as a special |
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52 configuration file which needs to be manually created. The working model is as |
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55 * There exist one or more "magic commands": a magic command is any shell command |
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56 (anything that can be passed to /bin/sh -c) whose execution causes a connected |
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57 Calypso target device to power on and boot. Naturally these commands will be |
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58 very specific to your custom system; they are NOT part of FC host tools! |
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60 * These magic commands may be long, and requiring the user to include each magic |
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61 command in full on fc-loadtool, rvinterf etc invokation lines is undesirable. |
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62 To save typing, we associate a short name (which you choose yourself as you |
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63 see fit) with each magic command, and we have a configuration file (which you |
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64 need to create) that defines the mapping. |
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66 * The argument to the new -P option is the short name to be looked up in the |
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67 configuration file. |
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69 The configuration file needs to be created in /opt/freecalypso/bootctrl.conf; |
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70 let us illustrate it with some examples. |
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72 Example 1: FC-UJA |
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75 When FC-UJA becomes a reality, there will be a program called fc-testreset that |
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76 will locate the attached FC-UJA by its USB ID, connect to FT2232D Channel A and |
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77 generate the desired reset pulse on its output. The configuration in |
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78 /opt/freecalypso/bootctrl.conf may look as follows: |
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80 uja fc-testreset |
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82 This configuration associates boot control name 'uja' with shell command |
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83 fc-testreset. A developer would then run fc-loadtool like this: |
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85 fc-loadtool -h fcfam -Puja /dev/ttyUSB0 |
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87 if ttyUSB0 is where FC-UJA's UART channel ended up. fc-loadtool would run |
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88 normally, sending beacons to /dev/ttyUSB0 and waiting for a Calypso boot ROM |
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89 response, but it would also execute the fc-testreset command listed in the |
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90 configuration file, and if everything is connected correctly, the resulting |
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91 nTESTRESET pulse will cause the target to boot. |
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93 The possibility of a single host talking to multiple Calypso targets is fully |
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94 supported: if you have multiple FC-UJA adapters with different USB descriptor |
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95 serial numbers programmed in their EEPROMs connected to respective Calypso |
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96 targets, you could have a /opt/freecalypso/bootctrl.conf setup like this: |
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98 uja1 fc-testreset -d serial1 |
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99 uja2 fc-testreset -d serial2 |
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101 and then run fc-loadtool accordingly: |
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103 fc-loadtool -h fcfam -Puja1 /dev/ttyUSB3 |
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104 fc-loadtool -h fcfam -Puja2 /dev/ttyUSB4 |
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106 Example 2: Openmoko GTA02 |
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109 There is a modem-power-ctrl.sh script provided in the openmoko directory of this |
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110 FC host tools package; if you are going to run fc-loadtool on the application |
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111 processor of your GTA02 smartphone, you should install this script in some |
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115 lm /usr/local/sbin/modem-power-ctrl boot |
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117 The name 'lm' stands for "local modem"; you can then run fc-loadtool as follows: |
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119 fc-loadtool -h fic -Plm /dev/ttySAC0 |
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121 Change from the past |
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122 ==================== |
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124 Back in 2013 the predecessor to our current FC host tools package was just |
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125 loadtools, and we had a special configuration for building our loadtools to run |
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126 on the GTA02 AP. But it worked backwards relative to our current arrangement: |
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127 the current sensible arrangement is that a tool like fc-loadtool run without |
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128 any special options simply operates on the specified serial port without any |
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129 special magic, and if special magic is desired, it needs to be requested |
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130 explicitly with the new -P option; the old loadtools-on-GTA02-AP arrangement |
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131 was the opposite: you needed to specify -n to get "regular" operation, otherwise |
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132 the tools would automatically operate the modem power control. |
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134 Now that we support many more different Calypso hardware targets than we even |
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135 knew about in 2013-2014, a cleanup has been long overdue. The new arrangement |
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136 as of fc-host-tools-r12 cleans up the mess in several ways: |
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138 * Our FC host tools package has grown so much that making special code |
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139 configurations for special environments like the AP of some particular |
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140 smartphone is no longer scalable; now we just have one standard FC host tools |
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141 package without platform-specific hacks. |
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143 * Openmoko platform was certainly very special to us once, but it is not so |
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144 special any more - now we just treat it the same as any other. Our target |
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145 boot control mechanism has now been generalized from just OM GTA02 to any |
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146 arbitrary platform with similar needs. |
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148 * No more reversal of the standard tool paradigm: we have standard operation by |
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149 default, magic on request with an option. |