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README written for this TCS211-on-Pirelli branch
author Space Falcon <falcon@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
date Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:07:46 +0000
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1 This tree is a port of the available TCS211 semi-src firmware from its native
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2 Leonardo/Openmoko target to the not-so-native Pirelli DP-L10. In order to make
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3 this feat possible, the tpudrv.lib binary library has been ripped apart, a hack
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4 worked into the makefile to use the unchanged tpudrv.obj and p_tpudr12.obj as
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5 shipped objects rather than libs, while tpudrv12.obj is recompiled from the
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6 same reconstructed tpudrv12.c source that is used in the full-source FreeCalypso
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7 firmware project.
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9 The current status is that this hack-firmware can be flashed into a Pirelli
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10 phone, and it boots (upon battery insertion while in USB-but-no-battery state)
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11 without crashing. However, before we can tell whether it can get as far as
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12 connecting to a GSM network and handling calls and SMS, we first need to develop
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13 a special hack-utility for transferring Pirelli's calibration and IMEI data from
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14 their factory data block into FFS which TCS211 fw can understand.
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16 In our full-source FC GSM fw project we don't need to transfer or manipulate
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17 these data in any way because our fw knows how to read them directly from
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18 Pirelli's factory data block at run time as needed. But in TCS211 we have
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19 binary blobs and a nasty build system to deal with, hence implementing the same
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20 level of convenience in TCS211 would be too difficult. Hence we shall take the
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21 alternate approach that is not as convenient for the "user" (this TCS211 on
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22 Pirelli subproject is intended only for core FC developers anyway), but much
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23 easier to implement in the present circumstances: externally copy the IMEI and
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24 calibration data from Pirelli's factory data block into TCS211's FFS with a
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25 special utility.
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27 Further updates will come when that utility arrives.