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README: simplified way of setting TR_BAUD_CONFIG to TR_BAUD_812500
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Fri, 16 Mar 2018 04:13:40 +0000
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2 attempts at displaying TI's 176x220 pixel demo/prototype phone UI on an external
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3 development host in the absence of a suitable Calypso target device with an LCD
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4 of the needed large size. Two approaches have been tried, separated in time by
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5 about 2.5 y:
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7 2015-09 approach
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10 A year before FreeCalypso Magnetite, when all we had was the TCS211 semi-src
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11 from Sotovik with its original all-Windows build system, with all of the blobs
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12 intact and no apparent hope of deblobbing, plus our first attempt at bottom-up
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13 GSM fw with completely broken L1, we had built two hacked-up versions of TI's
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14 TCS211 fw with TI's 176x220 pixel UI enabled: one running on the GTA02 modem,
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15 the other running on the Pirelli DP-L10. Both were hacked up to emit raster
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16 blits of the big 176x220 pix, 16 bits per pixel color UI on the RVTMUX serial
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17 channel, running at Calypso's maximum baud rate of 812500 bps. These hacks
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18 have not been touched since 2015-09, but they can still be found in the
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19 historical leo2moko-debug and tcs211-pirelli Hg repositories on Bitbucket.
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21 A host utility named fc-lcdemu had been written to display these LCD blits
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22 emitted by those hacked-up firmwares. It receives these blits via a pipe from
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23 rvinterf and displays them in an X11 window; it thus naturally requires libX11
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24 to compile and an X11 display to run. X11 programming is a black art which
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25 this author (Mychaela Falconia) once knew but now largely forgot, hence
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26 fc-lcdemu was based on the HECterm project (an xterm-like terminal application
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27 for X11) by the same author, but from a much earlier life phase.
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29 If you wish to resurrect and play with one of these external LCD output hacks
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30 from 2015-09, you will need to invoke rvinterf with special arguments to tell
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31 it to launch fc-lcdemu and to pass the LCD blits to it; the synopsis is as
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32 follows:
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34 rvinterf -B812500 -X fc-lcdemu /dev/ttyXXX
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36 The -B812500 argument is needed to tell rvinterf to use this high baud rate,
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37 and the -X option tells rvinterf to invoke the following named program (can be
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38 a more complex shell command) with popen(3) and then feed it LCD blits received
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39 from the target. If you use the new version of rvinterf that is about to be
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40 released with fc-host-tools-r8, the old -v option is no longer needed and no
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41 longer accepted.
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43 This 2015-09 approach was putting a huge load on the RiViera Trace mechanism,
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44 hacks were required in the firmware to massively super-size the memory space
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45 allotted to RVT and to run the RVTMUX serial channel at 812500 baud, and even
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46 with the supersized memory allocation and the maximum serial baud rate there
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47 were still some 'Lost Message' traces. The hacks on the firmware side which
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48 implement this 2015-09 approach have NOT been included in our current Magnetite
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49 firmware.
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51 2018-03 approach
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54 Rivisiting the phone UI subproject of FreeCalypso in 2018, I got another idea
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55 for how to get the LCD framebuffer bits out of a Calypso device: instead of
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56 having the firmware push them out to the trace buffer every time r2d_refresh()
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57 is called, have the fw do nothing, and have the external host read the
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58 framebuffer memory out at its own pace via ETM memory read commands. The new
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59 fc-lcdpoll utility implements this approach; in order to avoid having to reopen
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60 the X11 can of worms, I made fc-lcdpoll output the blits in the form which the
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61 already-existing fc-lcdemu code from 2015 takes as input, so you run a pipeline
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62 like this:
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64 fc-lcdpoll framebuffer_base_addr | fc-lcdemu
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66 fc-lcdpoll connects to rvinterf as a regular client, thus you would typically
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67 have rvinterf running already when you run the above pipeline in another window.
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68 fc-lcdpoll needs to know the address of the in-RAM framebuffer maintained by
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69 the R2D firmware component, and this address needs to be given on the command
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70 line. You can find it by grepping the linker-generated map file (fwimage.map
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71 or ramimage.map as appropriate) for the _r2d_lcd_memory_words symbol.
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73 This new approach works with current FC Magnetite firmware, and has been tested
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74 in a few different ways:
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76 * We have a real TI-made D-Sample board and we can run our Magnetite firmware
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77 on it, but lacking the tpudrv10 driver code for Clara RF, we are running with
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78 a non-functional placeholder stub for the TPU driver. The D-Sample board thus
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79 has no GSM radio functionality when running our fw, and the firmware can only
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80 do what any regular phone would do in an area with zero coverage: limited to
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81 stepping through menus and examining SIM phonebook entries and stored
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82 messages. The physical LCD output works, but is often garbled due to what
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83 appears to be a hardware problem. Running fc-lcdpoll|fc-lcdemu against this
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84 setup results in the virtual LCD mirroring the physical one, albeit with some
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85 lag, and the virtual LCD shows what the physical one *should* display if it
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86 weren't garbled.
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88 * One can run a UI-enabled Magnetite build on our FCDEV3B modem board and use
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89 the fc-lcdpoll|fc-lcdemu pipe to display what the fw puts in the framebuffer.
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90 Unlike the D-Sample, our FCDEV3B has perfectly working GSM radio, thus this
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91 setup allows us to see the behaviour of the UI firmware with a working radio
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92 and thus a working GSM network connection underneath. By calling the number
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93 of the SIM inserted into this setup, one can see the incoming call screen
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94 followed by the missed call indication. Because there is no physical keypad
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95 on the FCDEV3B, it appears at first that the show stops here with no way to
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96 feed keypresses to the firmware, but TI's firmware does have a mechanism for
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97 sending simulated keystrokes via RVTMUX encoded in GPF system primitives, and
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98 we have recently figured out how to use it. Our fc-shell utility now offers
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99 the new key command for sending such simulated keypresses to the target, and
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100 by combining this key entry mechanism with the present fc-lcdpoll|fc-lcdemu
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101 display viewing mechanism, we've been able to exercise the UI a little
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102 further. This approach definitely shows some promise.
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104 * The Pirelli DP-L10 target has also been tried. I was hoping that it would
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105 make a good platform by virtue of having a working GSM radio (unlike the
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106 D-Sample sans tpudrv10 code) and a physical keypad that is just like the
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107 one on the D-Sample, but no joy. When running FreeCalypso on Pirelli's alien
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108 hardware, among many other issues that kill any possibility of turning this
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109 alien hw into a libre phone, we get this one highly bizarre misbehaviour for
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110 which we have absolutely no explanation: the radio works OK *only if* the
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111 firmware is built with deep sleep enabled in CST (i.e., enabled by default on
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112 boot), and the Calypso gets to do some deep sleeps prior to the operator
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113 manually bringing it up with AT commands. If deep sleep is disabled, as soon
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114 as you try to bring the radio up, the Calypso DSP falls over with errors
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115 which we naturally have no way of debugging. The most recent experiment has
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116 revealed that this same DSP death behaviour (resulting in no working GSM
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117 radio) occurs even when deep sleep is enabled if the firmware is built in the
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118 MFW configuration (UI layers included) - as the UI layers command the radio
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119 bring-up immediately on boot, the DSP falls over. Thus we are rudely reminded
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120 once more than the Pirelli target is a dead end.
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122 Baud rate considerations
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125 The ETM memory read approach implemented in fc-lcdpoll is a lock-step, one read
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126 transaction at a time mechanism, not a continuous unstoppable stream of data
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127 like the original 2015-09 approach - therefore, it does not impose any load on
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128 the firmware's trace buffers, and it can work with RVTMUX running at any baud
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129 rate, even plain 115200. However, the slower the RVTMUX serial channel runs,
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130 the slower will the virtual LCD update, hence running the serial line at 812500
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131 baud is still preferable. To change the RVTMUX serial baud rate from 115200 bps
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132 to 812500 bps in your Magnetite firmware build, simply add a
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133 TR_BAUD_CONFIG=TR_BAUD_812500 argument to your ./configure.sh line,
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134 and remember to pass the -B812500 option to rvinterf when talking to such
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135 trace-speed-increased firmware.