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fc-loadtool: added operation time reporting to flash erase
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This is the help file for fc-loadtool. See lthelp.c for the code that parses and displays it. The parsing code is the only documentation for the format of this help file - if you are going to edit this help text, read the parsing code first. === main This utility allows you to perform the following operations on your Calypso GSM device: * Peek and poke registers * Dump any part of memory * Read and program flash See the following help topics for more information: help peekpoke Register peek and poke commands help flash Flash operation commands help all List of all implemented commands help exit Controlling the cleanup on exit === all abbr Read an ABB register abbw Write an ABB register baud Switch the serial comm with loadagent to a different baud rate crc32 Get CRC-32 of a memory area on the target dieid Read the Calypso die ID dump Dump a target memory region in hex and ASCII dump2bin Dump a target memory region to a file in binary format dump2srec Dump a target memory region to a file in S-record format exec Execute a command script exit Exit from loadtool and clean up the target device state flash Flash operations flash2 Operations on the 2nd flash bank (FC and Pirelli devices only) quit Alias for exit r8 Read an 8-bit register or memory location r16 Read a 16-bit register or memory location r32 Read a 32-bit register or memory location w8 Write an 8-bit register or memory location w16 Write a 16-bit register or memory location w32 Write a 32-bit register or memory location To get help on any command, type help and the command keyword. === abbr === abbw abbr pg reg Read ABB register <reg> on page <pg> abbw pg reg val Write <val> into register <reg> on page <pg> The <pg> and <reg> arguments default to decimal unless prefixed with 0x; the <val> argument to abbw is always hexadecimal. === baud baud Display the current baud rate baud <rate> Switch the baud rate to <rate> (number in bps) The supported baud rates are: Standard: 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200 Calypso special: 203125, 406250, 812500 The baud command coordinates the necessary simultaneous switching of the baud rate on both the host and the target (loadagent). Loadagent always supports all of the listed rates and will switch happily, but in the case of the higher non-standard baud rates fc-loadtool has no way of knowing ahead of time whether or not the requested baud rate is supported by your usb2serial adapter or whatever other serial port hardware and driver you are using. If the baud rate switch fails, the communication link with the target will be broken and fc-loadtool will exit ungracefully. === crc32 crc32 hex-start hex-len The first argument is the starting target memory address in hex; the second argument is the length of the area to CRC, also in hex. The command will be sent to loadagent; CRC-32 of the requested range will be computed on the target and displayed in hex. === dieid dieid Display the Calypso die ID dieid <filename> Display the Calypso die ID, and also save it in the named file The Calypso die ID resides in 4 16-bit registers at target addresses 0xFFFEF010 through 0xFFFEF016. It is displayed on the terminal and optionally saved to a file in this simple form: FFFEF010: xxxx FFFEF012: xxxx FFFEF014: xxxx FFFEF016: xxxx === dump dump hex-start hex-len The first argument is the starting target memory address in hex; the second argument is the length of the area to dump, also in hex. The dump will be displayed on the terminal in hex and ASCII. === dump2bin === dump2srec dump2bin hex-start hex-len outfile dump2srec hex-start hex-len outfile The first argument is the starting target memory address in hex; the second argument is the length of the area to dump, also in hex; the third argument is the name of the output file to be created/written. The dump will be saved in binary or S-records as per the chosen command, always in the native byte order of the Calypso ARM7 target (little-endian). === exec exec <script-file> Read and execute commands from the named file. If the execution of a script command encounters an error, the following commands are not executed, i.e., stop on first error. === exit === quit exit Clean up the target in the default manner and exit exit bare Exit loadtool without doing anything to the target exit iota-off Exit loadtool and command an ABB power-off on the target exit jump0 Exit loadtool and command the target to reboot via jump to 0 The default method of cleaning up the target device state upon exit is set in the hardware parameters file selected with the -h or -H command line option; it is the exit-mode setting. On most targets the default exit mode is iota-off. If you do an exit bare without powering the target device off in some other way, the device will still be running loadagent, which is probably not what you want. However, it is the proper exit mode if you have powered off or reset the target device by brute force (yanking the battery). === flash === flash2 The primary end use of fc-loadtool is for reading and writing the NOR flash memories of the supported GSM devices. Most Calypso phones and modems have only one flash bank (as in chip select), and are manipulated with the flash command. FreeCalypso development boards and the Pirelli DP-L10 phone have two flash banks (as in chip selects) of 8 MiB each; they are manipulated with the flash and flash2 commands. The following flash operations are available: flash blankchk Blank-check a region of flash flash dump2bin Dump flash content to a file in binary format flash dump2srec Dump flash content to a file in S-record format flash erase Erase a region of flash flash geom Display geometry details of detected flash chip flash id Perform flash chip autodetection sequence flash info Display flash configuration info flash program-bin Program flash with a binary file flash program-m0 Program flash with an image in TI's *.m0 format flash program-srec Program flash with an image in standard S-record format flash quickprog Program a few flash words from the command line flash reset Reset flash chip to read array mode flash sectors Display the list of flash sector addresses and sizes flash status Intel-style flash only: read Status Register flash unlock Intel-style flash only: unlock flash sectors Additional operation for Compal targets only: flash erase-program-boot Erase and reprogram the boot sector Substitute flash2 instead of flash when operating on the 2nd flash chip select of Pirelli-style flash memory configurations. Prepend help before a command to get usage information, e.g., help flash program-bin. === flash:blankchk flash[2] blankchk hex-start-offset hex-length Blank-checks an area of flash starting at the specified hex offset (from the base address of the flash bank) and extending for the specified hex length. Reports whether the checked region is blank or not. Flash must be blank (FF in all bytes) before it can be programmed. === flash:dump2bin flash[2] dump2bin outfile [offset [length]] Read device flash content and save it to a file. If only a filename is specified, the full flash bank is dumped; one can optionally specify a starting offset and an explicit length, both in hex. This command was originally nothing more than a user-friendly front-end to the plain dump2bin command (see help dump2bin), but in the current version it first performs the flash chip autodetection operation if it hasn't been done already (needed in order to determine the size of the flash bank) and resets the flash to read array mode. === flash:dump2srec flash[2] dump2srec outfile [offset [length]] Read device flash content and save it to a file. If only a filename is specified, the full flash bank is dumped; one can optionally specify a starting offset and an explicit length, both in hex. This command was originally nothing more than a user-friendly front-end to the plain dump2srec command (see help dump2srec), but in the current version it first performs the flash chip autodetection operation if it hasn't been done already (needed in order to determine the size of the flash bank) and resets the flash to read array mode. === flash:erase flash[2] erase hex-start-offset hex-length Erases an area of flash starting at the specified hex offset (from the base address of the flash bank) and extending for the specified hex length. Flash memory can only be erased (turning 0 bits back to 1s) in units of sectors, as set in stone by the design of the flash chip in use. Loadtool will autodetect the flash chip in use and will only operate on those flash chip types which it knows about; if a known chip is found, loadtool knows its sector layout and enforces that both arguments to the flash[2] erase command lie on sector boundaries. === flash:erase-program-boot flash erase-program-boot binfile [length] This operation is applicable to Compal targets only. This command erases and reprograms flash sector 0 (the boot sector) with minimized vulnerability to bricking by loading the new boot code into a scratchpad RAM area on the target, then commanding loadagent (running on the target) to erase and reprogram the dangerous flash sector without requiring further interaction with loadtool. (In contrast, loadtool's "regular" flash erase and program operations are driven primarily by loadtool, with loadagent providing only low-level functions.) The new bits to be programmed are taken from the specified binary file. Byte 0 of the file goes into byte 0 of the flash and so on, for the specified length. If no length argument is given, it defaults to the length of the file, which must not exceed the length of flash sector 0: 64 KiB on the "basic" Compal phones or 8 KiB on C155/156. === flash:geom This command displays information about the detected flash chip: device name, geometry details and the command set style (AMD or Intel). The displayed geometry details include the total size of the flash bank, the total number of sectors, the number of regions with different sector sizes and the sector size and the number of sectors in each region. === flash:id This command explicitly invokes the same flash chip autodetection operation that is performed the first time each flash bank is accessed with any flash or flash2 command. === flash:info This command displays the global flash configuration settings that have been selected at fc-loadtool invokation time (hardware parameters associated with the target set via -h or -H): the global single-4M, single-8M or dual-8M setting and flash bank base addresses. In previous versions this command performed flash ID checks and displayed geometry information; these functions have been moved to the new flash id and flash geom commands. === flash:program-bin flash[2] program-bin flash-offset binfile [file-offset [length]] This command programs flash, using a binary file as the data source. One must always specify the starting flash offset (from the base address of the flash bank), but the starting file offset and length are optional, defaulting to the whole file. The binary file must be in the native byte order of the Calypso ARM7 processor, which is little-endian. Images produced by flash[2] dump2bin are suitable. === flash:program-m0 flash[2] program-m0 image.m0 *.m0 is the format that has been used by companies like TI and Closedmoko for their proprietary firmware images. It is emitted by TI's hex470 tool, and in the proprietary environment it is fed as an input to FLUID. (The latter is TI's Flash Loader Utility Independent of Device, and fc-loadtool can be seen as an independent reimplementation thereof - although it doesn't have the same level of device-independence.) The *.m0 format is actually a variant of Motorola's SREC, but with a different byte order: each 16-bit word is byte-reversed relative to the native byte order of the ARM7 processor. (This strange byte order actually makes some sense if one views the image as a long array of 16-bit hex values; 16 bits is the width of the flash memory on Calypso GSM devices and thus the natural unit size for flash programming.) Because each S-record contains an address, no addresses or offsets need to be specified in the flash[2] program-m0 command, only the image file. === flash:program-srec flash[2] program-srec image.srec This command programs the flash with an image in the standard S-record format, in the native little-endian byte order of the Calypso ARM7 processor. It is the opposite byte order from that used by TI's *.m0 files - see help flash program-m0. Images produced by flash[2] dump2srec are suitable for flash[2] program-srec. Because each S-record contains an address, no addresses or offsets need to be specified in the flash[2] program-srec command, only the image file. === flash:quickprog flash[2] quickprog hex-offset hex-data-string This command is intended only for developers; it provides raw access to loadagent's basic flash write primitive. Read the source code for more information. === flash:reset Intel-style flash memory chips have two "stable" or "quiescent" states: reading array data and reading the status register (SR). After an erase or program operation the flash chip is "parked" in the Read SR state; the flash reset command switches it back to reading array data. This command works for AMD-style flash as well, but it is normally not needed, as AMD-style flash chips automatically return to the read-array-data state after every erase or program operation. === flash:sectors This command displays the list of sector offsets and sizes for the detected flash chip. This command is deprecated except for debugging of loadtool internals; the new flash geom command displays the same information in a much more compact form. === flash:status This command is only applicable to Intel-style flash chips. It reads the flash chip's Status Register, which can be used to diagnose errors incurred by previous erase or program operations. === flash:unlock flash unlock hex-start-offset hex-length This command is only applicable to Intel-style flash chips. These flash chips power up with each sector (erase block) in the "locked" state; each sector needs to be unlocked before it can be erased or programmed. This command is normally not needed, as the flash erase command unlocks each sector before erasing it. However, if you are going to perform program operations in some sectors without erasing them, you will need to unlock them explicitly first. This command operates only on sector boundaries just like flash erase. === r8 === r16 === r32 === w8 === w16 === w32 === peekpoke The register peek and poke commands are: r8 addr Read an 8-bit register or memory location r16 addr Read a 16-bit register or memory location r32 addr Read a 32-bit register or memory location w8 addr data Write an 8-bit register or memory location w16 addr data Write a 16-bit register or memory location w32 addr data Write a 32-bit register or memory location All addresses and data values are in hex.