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fc-shell TCH DL handler: add support for CSD modes TCH DL capture mechanism in FC Tourmaline firmware has been extended to support CSD modes in addition to speech - add the necessary support on the host tools side. It needs to be noted that this mechanism in its present state does NOT provide the debug utility value that was sought: as we learned only after the code was implemented, TI's DSP has a misfeature in that the buffer we are reading (a_dd_0[]) is zeroed out when the IDS block is enabled, i.e., we are reading all zeros and not the real DL bits we were after. But since the code has already been written, we are keeping it - perhaps we can do some tests with IDS disabled.
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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, actually functional as of fc-host-tools-r14: target boot
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4 general-purpose PC or laptop and communicate with various Calypso targets via
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7 the Calypso target to power on and/or reboot - instead such control must be
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8 performed "out of band" by the operator pressing the PWON or RESET button on
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9 the target device; some targets may even require complex battery manipulations.
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11 run on a special kind of host system which does have some means to directly
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15 provision (requires additional wire connections and a custom patch to Linux
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16 kernel ftdi_sio driver) for controlling Calypso target board PWON and RESET
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18 DUART28-boot-control article for the details.
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21 FC-UJA, standing for FreeCalypso UART+JTAG Adapter. This FC-UJA will be a
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37 overall power to the modem; other designs may reasonably add control of the
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38 modem's RESET line.
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43 slave modems via UARTs, but also controlling their power and reset.
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45 Where does the desire for target boot control in loadtools and rvinterf come
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47 exists: you first run fc-loadtool or fc-iram or fc-xram or rvinterf on your
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48 target /dev/ttyXXX, then press the PWON or RESET button on the target. Now
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49 suppose that the finger-actuated button has been replaced with some magic
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50 command that can be executed on the host system to produce the same effect -
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52 fc-loadtool or fc-iram or fc-xram or rvinterf command same as before, then as
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53 it sits there waiting for the target to boot, you have to open another terminal
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55 command that replaces the manual button press. Very cumbersome, hence the
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56 desire for a better way.
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58 Support for target boot control in FC host tools consists of a new -P option
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61 commands are to be used. There are two target boot control models, built-in
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62 and external:
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65 only currently implemented methods are:
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67 - DTR/RTS pulsing method implemented on our DUART28 adapter: -Pdtr means
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68 pulse DTR and -Prts means pulse RTS. Please refer to DUART28-boot-control
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69 article for the details.
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71 - Aid for working with the Pirelli DP-L10 target: -Petmoff boot control mode
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72 described in the new Pirelli-loadtools-entry article.
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74 * In the other case of external boot control commands, there exist one or more
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75 "magic commands": a magic command is any shell command (anything that can be
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76 passed to /bin/sh -c) whose execution causes a connected Calypso target device
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77 to power on and boot. Naturally these commands will be very specific to your
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78 custom system; they are NOT part of FC host tools!
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81 command in full on fc-loadtool, rvinterf etc invokation lines is undesirable.
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82 To save typing, we associate a short name (which you choose yourself as you
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83 see fit) with each magic command, and we have a configuration file (which you
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87 configuration file. (Built-in boot control names 'dtr', 'rts' and 'etmoff'
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88 are reserved and cannot be used for external boot control commands.)
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94 =================
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96 When FC-UJA becomes a reality, there will be a program called fc-testreset that
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98 generate the desired reset pulse on its output. The configuration in
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99 /opt/freecalypso/bootctrl.conf may look as follows:
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103 This configuration associates boot control name 'uja' with shell command
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104 fc-testreset. A developer would then run fc-loadtool like this:
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108 if ttyUSB0 is where FC-UJA's UART channel ended up. fc-loadtool would run
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109 normally, sending beacons to /dev/ttyUSB0 and waiting for a Calypso boot ROM
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110 response, but it would also execute the fc-testreset command listed in the
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111 configuration file, and if everything is connected correctly, the resulting
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112 nTESTRESET pulse will cause the target to boot.
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114 The possibility of a single host talking to multiple Calypso targets is fully
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115 supported: if you have multiple FC-UJA adapters with different USB descriptor
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116 serial numbers programmed in their EEPROMs connected to respective Calypso
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117 targets, you could have a /opt/freecalypso/bootctrl.conf setup like this:
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119 uja1 fc-testreset -d serial1
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122 and then run fc-loadtool accordingly:
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124 fc-loadtool -h fcfam -Puja1 /dev/ttyUSB3
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125 fc-loadtool -h fcfam -Puja2 /dev/ttyUSB4
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126
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127 Example 2: Openmoko GTA02
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128 =========================
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129
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130 There is a modem-power-ctrl.sh script provided in the openmoko directory of this
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131 FC host tools package; if you are going to run fc-loadtool on the application
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132 processor of your GTA02 smartphone, you should install this script in some
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133 sensible location such as /usr/local/sbin/modem-power-ctrl. Then fill in your
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134 /opt/freecalypso/bootctrl.conf file as follows:
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135
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136 lm /usr/local/sbin/modem-power-ctrl boot
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138 The name 'lm' stands for "local modem"; you can then run fc-loadtool as follows:
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140 fc-loadtool -h fic -Plm /dev/ttySAC0
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142 Change from the past
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143 ====================
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145 Back in 2013 the predecessor to our current FC host tools package was just
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146 loadtools, and we had a special configuration for building our loadtools to run
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147 on the GTA02 AP. But it worked backwards relative to our current arrangement:
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148 the current sensible arrangement is that a tool like fc-loadtool run without
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149 any special options simply operates on the specified serial port without any
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150 special magic, and if special magic is desired, it needs to be requested
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151 explicitly with the new -P option; the old loadtools-on-GTA02-AP arrangement
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152 was the opposite: you needed to specify -n to get "regular" operation, otherwise
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153 the tools would automatically operate the modem power control.
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155 Now that we support many more different Calypso hardware targets than we even
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156 knew about in 2013-2014, a cleanup has been long overdue. The new arrangement
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157 as of fc-host-tools-r12 cleans up the mess in several ways:
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159 * Our FC host tools package has grown so much that making special code
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160 configurations for special environments like the AP of some particular
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161 smartphone is no longer scalable; now we just have one standard FC host tools
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162 package without platform-specific hacks.
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164 * Openmoko platform was certainly very special to us once, but it is not so
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165 special any more - now we just treat it the same as any other. Our target
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166 boot control mechanism has now been generalized from just OM GTA02 to any
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167 arbitrary platform with similar needs.
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169 * No more reversal of the standard tool paradigm: we have standard operation by
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170 default, magic on request with an option.