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diff doc/TIFFS-IVA-usage @ 218:c44f31353f2f
doc/TIFFS-IVA-usage updated
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Sat, 20 May 2017 18:28:34 +0000 |
parents | dd3ec7c92bf1 |
children | f917441aa8bc |
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--- a/doc/TIFFS-IVA-usage Sat May 20 18:10:49 2017 +0000 +++ b/doc/TIFFS-IVA-usage Sat May 20 18:28:34 2017 +0000 @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ instance under study is organized in terms of flash sectors. The syntax of this argument is KxN, where K is the flash sector size in KiB and N is the number of sectors occupied by the FFS. For MokoFFS images the correct -organization argument is 64x7 (7 sectors of 64 KiB each); for Pirelli's FFS -images it is 256x18 (18 sectors of 256 KiB each). +organization argument is 64x7 (7 sectors of 64 KiB each), for Pirelli's FFS +images it is 256x18 (18 sectors of 256 KiB each), and for TIFFS images read out +of FreeCalypso development boards it is 256x8 (8 sectors of 256 KiB each). The following global options may be given before the image filename argument: @@ -29,10 +30,20 @@ device flash dumps of which FFS is only a part, starting somewhere other than at 0. +-O + + The location field in the inode structure is 16 bits rather than 32, + stored in the upper two bytes out of the four. This old FFS format + (limited to 1 MiB total FFS size) was used by *very* old versions of + TI's firmware and is incompatible with our "current" fw versions; + so far the only encountered example of this old FFS format was found on + the D-Sample board which the Mother scored in 2015 - it came with a + firmware image dated 20020917. + -r ino - Use the specified inode as the root. Per Falcon's convention, TIFFS - inode numbers are always given in hex, hence this argument is + Use the specified inode as the root. Per the Mother's convention, + TIFFS inode numbers are always given in hex, hence this argument is interpreted as hex without needing a 0x prefix. The invokation syntax for mokoffs and pirffs wrappers is the same as for tiffs,