The set of host tools built in this directory consists of:

fc-loadtool		The tool for operating on Calypso GSM devices at a low
			level.  After "breaking" into the target GSM device in
			its boot process and getting FreeCalypso loadagent
			running on the target (out of Calypso internal RAM, aka
			IRAM), loadtool presents an interactive command prompt
			with commands for peeking and poking registers and most
			importantly, reading and writing any part of the
			device's non-volatile flash memory.

fc-iram & fc-xram	These utilities are intended for FreeCalypso developers
			only.  They load an S-record code image into IRAM or
			XRAM, respectively, induce a transfer of control to the
			loaded code, and then drop into a serial line pass-thru
			mode for the operator to interact with the thus loaded
			target code.

The currently supported target devices are the Compal family of basic
dumbphones, the Openmoko GTA0x GSM modem and the Pirelli DP-L10 feature phone.

All tools in the FreeCalypso loadtools suite work by feeding pieces of code to
the target device as it boots, preventing the booting of its regular firmware
and diverting control to these externally-loaded code pieces.  These pieces of
ARM7 target code need to be installed on the host system running loadtools,
normally in /usr/local/share/freecalypso:

loadagent	This is the "agent" code that runs on the target device when
		fc-loadtool is operating on it: loadtool carries out its
		operations by sending commands to loadagent.  There is only one
		version of loadagent for all currently supported Calypso
		targets: loadagent does not access any resources outside of the
		Calypso chip itself unless commanded to do so, and loadtool
		supports different target devices with different hardware
		configurations by sending different commands to loadagent as
		appropriate.

compalstage	For Compal phones only: a little piece of code that is fed to
		the original fw's bootloader via the serial download protocol
		provided by the latter; it re-enables the Calypso chip boot ROM
		and jumps to it, allowing our loadagent to be loaded in the
		same way as on freedom-enabled devices.

If you are working with a development snapshot of the freecalypso-sw source
tree, you will need to compile and install a GNU cross-compiler toolchain
targeting ARM7 (see ../toolchain) and then use that toolchain to compile
loadagent and compalstage (see ../target-utils) before you can successfully use
loadtools to operate on a target device.  End-user oriented releases of
FreeCalypso host tools will include prebuilt loadagent and compalstage binaries
in the target-binaries subdirectory.

Installing
==========

Just run 'make' and 'make install' as usual.  If the target-binaries directory
is present, your installation will be complete and ready to use.  If you are
building these pieces yourself from source, do a 'make' and 'make install' in
../target-utils, after you have the ARM7 gcc toolchain installed and working.

Basic usage
===========

The steps for bringing up fc-loadtool to operate on a target Calypso device are
as follows:

1. If you are using a USB serial adapter, or operating on a Pirelli phone that
   has one built in, connect the USB side first so that the necessary
   /dev/ttyUSB* device node appears.

2. Run fc-loadtool like this:

   fc-loadtool $TARGETOPT /dev/ttyXXX

   Change /dev/ttyXXX to the actual serial port you are using, and change
   $TARGETOPT to:

   Device		Needed options
   -----------------------------------
   Mot C11x/123		-h compal
   Mot C139/140		-h compal -c 1003
   Mot C155/156		-h c155
   Openmoko GTA02	-h gta02
   Pirelli DP-L10	-h pirelli

3. Cause the target device to execute its boot path.  Openmoko GTA0x and
   Pirelli DP-L10 targets have the Calypso boot ROM enabled, and will interrupt
   and divert their normal boot path when they "hear" the beacons which
   fc-loadtool will be sending down the serial line.  Compal phones have this
   boot ROM disabled at the board level, but their standard firmware includes a
   flash-resident bootloader that offers a different way of interrupting the
   boot path and loading code over the serial line; fc-loadtool will be set up
   to speak the latter protocol when run with the corresponding options from
   the table above.

You will see messages showing fc-loadtool's progress with feeding first
compalstage (if needed), then loadagent (always needed) to the target device,
followed by some target-specific initialization done via loadagent commands.
If all of the above succeeds, you will land at a loadtool> prompt.  Type
'help', and it will guide you from there.  Alternatively, you can familiarize
yourself with loadtool commands and operations without actually running it by
reading the loadtool.help text file.

Command line options
====================

The fc-loadtool command lines shown above will usually be sufficient.  However,
here is the complete command line description for all 3 tools:

fc-iram [options] ttyport iramimage.srec
fc-xram [options] ttyport xramimage.srec [2ndprog]
fc-loadtool [options] ttyport

The available options are common for all 3 utilities, with a few noted
exceptions:

-a /path/to/loadagent

	This option applies only to fc-loadtool and fc-xram.  It specifies the
	pathname at which the required loadagent.srec image should be sought,
	overriding the compiled-in default.

-b baud

	This option is common for all 3 utilities.  It selects the baud rate
	to be used when pushing the IRAM image to the Calypso boot ROM.  In the
	case of fc-iram, the selected baud rate will be in effect when the
	loaded IRAM image is jumped to and fc-iram drops into the serial tty
	pass-thru mode; in the case of fc-loadtool, it will be the initial baud
	rate for communicating with loadagent, which can be switched later with
	the baud command.  The default is 115200 baud.

-B baud

	This option is specific to fc-xram.  It selects the baud rate to be
	used when pushing the XRAM image to loadagent.  If no -B option is
	specified, fc-xram will communicate with loadagent at the same baud
	rate that was used to load loadagent itself via the Calypso boot ROM
	download protocol, i.e., the rate selected with -b, defaulting to
	115200 baud if no -b option was given either.  Neither -b nor -B
	affects the baud rate that will be in effect when the loaded XRAM image
	is jumped to and fc-xram drops into the serial tty pass-thru mode: that
	baud rate independently defaults to 115200 baud and can only be changed
	with the -r option.

-c <compalstage flavor>

	This option is common for all 3 utilities.  It directs the tools to
	perform the Compal loading stage before proceeding with the Calypso
	boot ROM serial protocol, and selects the "flavor" of compalstage to
	use.  As you can see in the source, compalstage is built in 3 different
	versions, for different C1xx models which exhibit different quirks.

	This option overrides the compal-stage setting given in the hardware
	parameter file selected with -h or -H; the -c or -C option must be given
	after -h or -H in order to take effect.  -c none disables the Compal
	stage and causes the tools to proceed directly to the Calypso boot ROM
	phase, even on targets for which the hardware parameter file specifies
	compal-stage.

-C /path/to/compalstage-binary

	This option is just like -c, except that the given argument is used
	directly as the compalstage binary file pathname (absolute or relative)
	without checking or alteration.

-h hwtype

	This option is common for all 3 utilities.  It selects the specific
	target device configuration to be used.  More precisely, it constructs
	a pathname of the form /usr/local/share/freecalypso/%s.config, where %s
	is the argument given to this option, and uses that file as the hardware
	parameter file.

	The hardware configurations known to the present release of FreeCalypso
	loadtools are listed in the "Basic usage" section above.

-H /path/to/hwparam-file

	This option is just like -h, except that the given argument is used
	directly as the hardware parameter file pathname (absolute or relative)
	without alteration.

-i num

	This option is common for all 3 utilities.  It specifies the interval
	in milliseconds at which the tool will send "please interrupt the boot
	process" beacons out the serial port, hoping to catch the Calypso
	internal boot ROM.  The default is 13 ms.

-n

	This option does anything only when loadtools have been compiled to run
	on GTA0x AP (see the corresponding section below).  If you've compiled
	loadtools with the -DGTA0x_AP_BUILD option, it has an effect of making
	each tool automatically toggle the modem power control upon startup,
	removing the need for manual sequencing of the Calypso boot process.
	This -n option suppresses that action, making the AP build behave like
	the standard build in this regard.

-r baud	(fc-loadtool)

	This option is specific to fc-loadtool.  It causes the tool to skip its
	normal steps of feeding loadagent and possibly compalstage to the target
	via special serial protocols, and instead assume that the target is
	already running loadagent, communicating at the specified baud rate.
	In other words, reattach to an already running loadagent.  Use this
	option if your fc-loadtool session has been terminated ungracefully and
	you would like to reattach and resume, rather than forcibly reset the
	target by yanking and reinserting the battery and restart from the
	beginning.

-r baud	(fc-xram)

	This option is specific to fc-xram.  It selects the serial line baud
	rate which should be set just before the loaded XRAM image is jumped
	to; the default is 115200 baud.

fc-xram 2nd program invokation
==============================

The fc-xram utility can take two possible actions after it has loaded the
specified S-record image into XRAM:

* The default action, in the absence of additional command line arguments, is
  to drop into a serial tty pass-thru mode, just like fc-iram.

* The alternative action is to invoke a 2nd program and pass the serial
  communication channel to it.  This 2nd program invokation facility is intended
  primarily for passing the serial communication channel to rvinterf or rvtdump
  from the FreeCalypso software suite, not for launching any arbitrary 3rd-party
  programs from fc-xram.

The intended usage scenario is that one builds a version of the FreeCalypso GSM
firmware (or some subset thereof, such as an "in vivo" FFS editing agent) in the
ramImage configuration, fc-xram is used to load that ramImage into the target
device, and then the serial communication channel (RVTMUX) is immediately taken
over by rvinterf or rvtdump.

Openmoko GTA0x
==============

All of the above instructions assume that you are running these loadtools on a
general-purpose host system such as a GNU/Linux PC or laptop, and will
potentially use them to operate on multiple Calypso targets of different kinds.
If instead you are building loadtools to run on the application processor of a
smartphone such as Openmoko GTA0x, then it makes no sense for that special build
of loadtools to support any target other than the specific modem in that
smartphone.  Loadtools can be built with compalstage support excluded and with
GTA0x-specific modem power control included instead.  This build will still
include a bunch of functions of no relevance to GTA0x, but oh well..

To build loadtools for the GTA0x AP, you'll need to make the following
modifications to the Makefile:

* Change the CC= line to point to the appropriate cross-compiler (which you'll
  need to provide yourself);

* Change the CFLAGS= line: add the right options to target the ARM920T core in
  the GTA0x AP (e.g., -march=armv4t -mtune=arm920t), and add -DGTA0x_AP_BUILD
  to enable some code that makes sense only when running on the GTA0x AP.

* Change EXTRA_OBJ= from listing compalload.o to listing compaldummy.o and
  gtapower.o instead.

See gta-ap-build.sed for an example.