FreeTSM30/FreeCalypso project started

Harley Laue losinggeneration at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 07:41:08 CET 2013


On 02/13/2013 09:13 PM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote:
> Hello ex-Openmoko community,
>
> The purpose of this announcement is to let everyone interested know
> that my effort to liberate the original, fully functional (non-OsmocomBB)
> firmware for the Calypso GSM baseband (as found in Closedmoko GTA0[12]
> smartphones and many simpler feature phones) has not been abandoned.
While I think the project you're working on is great, you come off 
sounding petty using terms like "Closedmoko." I /still/ don't think any 
open hardware phone has come out without some kind of NDA attached to 
some part (I could be wrong.) OpenMoko was about four years ahead of the 
curve in even trying. IMO they deserve a bit more respect for what they 
were able to accomplish. Is short, name calling isn't befitting.

I wish you all the best to be successful in your project, but next time 
a bit more tact would be appreciated.
>
> Lacking the source or even semi-source for the specific version of the
> Calypso GSM firmware that was used by the Closedmoko company (FIC), I
> am taking the alternate approach: starting from the already-liberated
> version of the same Purplelabs GSM stack for a different Calypso phone
> (TSM30, aka SPT2C platform), and seeking to back-port it to the
> Leonardo (reference board for basic Calypso phone designs) and to the
> GTA02 GSM modem.
>
> Specifically, I have just made the first successful step on that long
> journey: I have successfully recompiled the Calypso GSM firmware image
> from HispaPhreak's source code release, and done so without resorting
> to a Windows machine or VM - using Wine version 1.5.23 under Slackware
> Linux version 13.37.  Of course it still targets TSM30 hardware, so
> don't even think about flashing it into a GTA02, but it's just the
> first step of an exciting journey ahead.  Previously I kept saying
> that HispaPhreak's TSM30 release *seemed* to be the complete source
> for the GSM stack running on the Calypso, but now we know that it
> actually *is* complete - yay!
>
> I am doing this work in a Mercurial source control repository, and of
> course I share it freely with the world.  Until I get my new Solaris
> ZFS-based server up, I have temporarily hosted the Hg repository here:
>
> http://www.harhan.com/Hg/FreeTSM30/
>
> The README file at the top of the Hg source tree summarizes what has
> been done before me, what I have done, and what I plan to do next.
> The ultimate goal of this project is to back-port the code to run on
> the GTA02 Calypso, producing a new GSM firmware image that comes as
> close as possible to the original Closedmoko one, but is fully built
> from source, no binary blobs.
>
> Of course I am lucky to have a GTA02 unit, which has become a rare
> privilege now that the stock has apparently been exhausted.  To those
> who don't have a GTA02, desire one, but can't get one because of the
> discontinued production and stock exhaustion: don't despair yet!
>
> After we are done liberating the Purplelabs Calypso firmware and
> getting it to run on Leonardo/GTA0x platforms (not SPT2C/TSM30), we
> can then address the hardware shortage problem by building a new
> Calypso-based phone motherboard - essentially do what Golden Delicious
> did, but instead of going to that UMTS modem, keep the Calypso.  My
> FTP site already has the complete schematics for the Leonardo board
> (TI's reference design for a Calypso phone), the PCB layout of the
> Calypso block can be recovered by sending a dead GTA02 board to a PCB
> reverse engineering shop (think "pirate manufacturers"), and I have
> some ideas as to how/where we may be able to obtain some Calypso chips
> and related components.  But this is a topic for much much later -
> let's get the firmware liberated first, using our existing GTA02s.
> Just don't despair if you aren't one of the lucky GTA02 owners.
>
> Viva la Revolucion,
>
> Michael Spacefalcon,
> formerly Michael Sokolov
>
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