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2 code images to be loaded into either flash or RAM or retrieved flash dumps. |
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3 These 3 different file formats are straight binary (*.bin), moko-style m0 (*.m0) |
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4 and little-endian S-records (*.srec). |
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11 of bytes in the raw binary file directly corresponds to incrementing byte |
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13 naturally. We also use the same straight binary format in native LE byte order |
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15 to TI's TMS470), generated with arm-elf-objcopy -O binary - although we don't |
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16 have too many such code images currently given that neither FC Citrine nor FC |
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19 Another unrelated use of this straight binary format is for RAM-loadable code |
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21 J100) as opposed to Calypso boot ROM. Our generally preferred image format for |
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24 bootloader protocol works. |
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30 rather than by us. This format is produced by TI's hex470 tool when run with |
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31 -m -memwidth 16 -romwidth 16 options, which is the configuration used by TI in |
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32 the Calypso program, and is read by TI's flash programming tool called FLUID. |
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33 TI used this format not only for flashable firmware images, but also for various |
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34 RAM-loadable code pieces, particularly those that comprise the target-side |
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35 component of FLUID. |
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40 even number of bytes to be loaded at an even address, and each 16-bit word |
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44 binutils) as bytes rather than 16-bit words, the result will be a reversed byte |
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48 16-bit hex) only for flashable firmware images built with TI's TMS470 toolchain |
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49 (can be our own FC Magnetite or historical ones built by Openmoko or other |
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55 files that were generated with -memwidth 8 -romwidth 8 instead of -memwidth 16 |
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60 going back to 2013-04-15, one of the very first programs written in the |
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61 FreeCalypso family of projects: our very first encounter with this file format |
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69 RAM-loadable code pieces, i.e., code that is loaded into RAM either through the |
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70 Calypso boot ROM (fc-iram) or by chain-loading via loadagent (fc-xram). I made |
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75 was linked for a given address needs to be loaded at that specific address, |
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81 With SREC as the standardized hand-off format from code generation tools to |
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82 loadtools, the choice of load address is made entirely on the code generation |
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89 byte order within S3 records. Prior to the introduction of RAM-loadable FC |
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90 Magnetite fw images for Pirelli DP-L10 in late 2016 (and then likewise for our |
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92 gcc+binutils, not with TMS470, and GNU binutils got a different take on the |
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93 S-record format than TI did: they generate byte-oriented SREC files, with the |
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94 byte order being the same as it would be in a straight binary file, matching |
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95 the target processor's memory byte addressing order. Thus GNU-style SREC has |
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97 and fc-xram, as opposed to TI-style SREC aka moko-style m0. The convention we |
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102 *.m0 code images and GNU-built *.srec ones: the final S7 record carries the |
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