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1 Our Calypso device flash programming tool fc-loadtool can be used in several |
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3 modes of usage. You should also read the companion article Binary-file-formats |
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9 In conventional forward engineering environments where you develop or maintain |
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10 firmware for hardware made by your own company (meaning no reverse eng, no |
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11 "illicit" aftermarket tinkering on hw made by some other company aeons ago), |
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12 you have a firmware build system that produces fw build images (some of which |
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13 may subsequently be blessed as releases), and you have a tool that flashes |
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14 these fw build images into your hardware, operating as efficiently as possible, |
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15 automated as much as possible, requiring minimal user action for the boring |
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16 repetitive task of flashing a new fw image every time you build one. And if |
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17 you become lucky enough to produce your hardware in volume, the same objectives |
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18 of maximal efficiency and automation carry over into the production line |
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19 environment as well. |
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21 In TI's environment the standardized format for firmware build images which are |
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22 then flashable into hardware targets was a variant of Motorola SREC written in |
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23 *.m0 files, a variant which we have named moko-style m0 after its most famous |
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24 user. The special quirk of this particular SREC variant is its peculiar byte |
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25 order. TI's firmware build system produces a *.m0 S-record image as its final |
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26 build product, and TI's official Calypso flash programming tool (FLUID) takes |
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27 these *.m0 files as its input. |
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29 Since the beginning of FreeCalypso we have had two ways of flashing TI-built |
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30 firmware images into suitable targets (initially OM GTA02 modem, then many |
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31 others including our own FCDEV3B): |
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34 programming device flash with bits from an m0 file directly and natively. |
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35 However, prior to fc-host-tools-r12 this command was poorly supported: it |
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36 ran significantly slower than flash program-bin, had poorer progress |
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37 indication and did not perform CRC-32 verification at the end, which is an |
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38 important integrity check. Also this original flash program-m0 command (as |
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41 outside knowledge of how many sectors to erase first with a separate flash |
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45 flashing finally done right. It reads in the specified S-record image in |
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47 regions into which the image deposits bits, erases the set of flash sectors |
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48 which need to be erased before programming these regions, then programs the |
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57 and it also generates an fc-loadtool command script (a text file named |
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59 calculated sector address range and a flash program-bin command to program |
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60 the accompanying fwimage.bin image. |
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63 FreeCalypso firmware release (containing fwimage.m0, fwimage.bin and |
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64 flash-script files) which you need to flash into a device such as our own |
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66 'exec flash-script' or 'flash e-program-m0 fwimage.m0' at the loadtool> prompt, |
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67 and both ways will produce exactly the same result with equal performance and |
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78 'flash e-program-bin 0 fwimage.bin' - but don't *ever* do it on a Mot C1xx |
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87 current FC Magnetite firmwares these gaps have been reduced to less than 16384 |
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135 release image with as little user thought involvement as possible, our flash |
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157 peek-n-poke paradigm, with elementary flash erase and flash program-bin commands |
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158 as our main staple, and no thought had been given originally to producing |
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171 aftermarket fashion, as opposed to flashing your own fw builds into your own hw |
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173 like we do currently at FreeCalypso HQ, then binary is the generally preferred |
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174 format: you make dumps with flash dump2bin, and when you selectively program |
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175 these images back into devices, you use flash program-bin with the right offsets |
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176 and length, along with appropriate flash erase commands. |
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179 they were implemented back in the founding stage of FreeCalypso in 2013 for the |
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180 sake of completeness and symmetry (it seemed right to support both binary and |
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181 S-record formats), but they never got any practical use: if you are making a |
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182 flash dump, you would normally want to examine it afterward, and any such |
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183 examination almost always needs a straight binary image, not S-records. |
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184 Furthermore, our flash program-bin command allows you to selectively program |
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185 just a particular portion of a binary image file into flash, at any arbitrary |
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186 flash address, but we don't have the same flexibility with flash program-srec - |
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187 the latter command is really just a sibling of program-m0 with the opposite |
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188 byte order. |
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190 Thus the short summary is as follows: |
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193 need to use flash e-program-bin or flash e-program-m0 depending on whether |
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194 the image is provided in *.bin or *.m0 format, or alternatively our older |
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195 flash program-bin or flash program-m0 commands preceded by a separate flash |
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196 erase command with the right sector range, possibly packaged in a supplied |
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197 fc-loadtool command script. |
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200 aftermarket flash manipulations on Mot C1xx or Pirelli DP-L10 phones or other |
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202 commands; the specific commands will depend on exactly what you are seeking |
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206 use case. |
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208 Special considerations for Compal phones |
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219 * flash program-m0, program-srec, e-program-m0 and e-program-srec commands are |
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