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changeset | 1 FreeCalypso Selenite is a side branch off the mainline FC Magnetite firmware. | 
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changeset | 2 The principal changes from Magnetite are: | 
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changeset | 3 | 
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changeset | 4 * Only modem functionality is supported.  FC Magnetite includes TI's C-Sample | 
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changeset | 5   and D-Sample demo/prototype UI code and work in progress toward our own | 
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changeset | 6   FreeCalypso Libre Dumbphone; this code is not included and this functionality | 
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changeset | 7   is explicitly unsupported in Selenite. | 
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changeset | 8 | 
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changeset | 9 * Only the hybrid modem configuration is supported, using the new G23M PS and | 
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changeset | 10   ACI code from TCS3.2/LoCosto, not any of the legacy configurations that used | 
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changeset | 11   the blob-laden version from TCS211-20070608. | 
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changeset | 12 | 
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changeset | 13 * The old version of Nucleus used in TI's TCS211 program (binary sans source) | 
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changeset | 14   is being replaced with FreeNucleus by XVilka.  OSL (GPF to Nucleus glue layer) | 
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changeset | 15   is the source-reconstructed version. | 
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changeset | 16 | 
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changeset | 17 * The tree layout and the build system are structured in a such way that it | 
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changeset | 18   will be possible to build either with TI's original TMS470 compiler or with | 
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changeset | 19   gcc. | 
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changeset | 20 | 
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changeset | 21 FC Selenite is currently a work in progress.  The configuration in which the | 
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changeset | 22 new version of Nucleus is built with the old TMS470 compiler needs to be put | 
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changeset | 23 together as a transitional step, and only after that step we'll be in the right | 
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changeset | 24 state to begin the work of porting to gcc. |