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beginning of MPFFS->TIFFS naming convention change
author Michael Spacefalcon <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
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1 The utility being developed in this source directory will allow one to examine
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2 ("in vitro") flash file system (FFS) images read out of TI GSM devices - or
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3 more precisely, out of GSM devices using a TI chipset and running TI's GSM
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4 firmware versions from the late Calypso era. The FFS version in question is
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5 implemented in our own FreeCalypso GSM fw, also happens to be used by the
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6 original proprietary firmware on the Pirelli DP-L10, and on some devices like
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7 Openmoko GTA0x the use of this FFS format is required in order to make use of
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8 the factory IMEI and RF calibration data.
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10 This new tiffs utility is intended to replace the earlier mpffs-* utilities
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11 released in the summer of SE52 (A.D. 2013), and will also incorporate the
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12 additional examination functionality that was developed as part of the
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13 "pirollback" utilities.
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15 Naming
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18 I have previously referred to the FFS format in question as Mokopir-FFS or
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19 MPFFS, from "Moko" and "Pirelli". I was originally hesitant to call it TIFFS,
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20 as lacking the source code, I had no way of knowing whether the FFS format and
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21 implementation were of TI's own invention, or something that TI licensed as a
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22 black box from one of their many proprietary software partners. (I was unable
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23 to identify it as any well-known, industry-standard FFS format, but absence of
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24 evidence is not evidence of absence.) But now that we have TI's original source
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25 code which implements this FFS (first the MV100-0.1.rar source, then the full
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26 Leonardo one), complete with comments and a HISTORY file, we know that our FFS
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27 was invented and implemented by someone named Mads Meisner-Jensen at TI - I'm
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28 guessing in the SSA group in Nice, France.
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30 I am now making a naming transition from MPFFS to TIFFS: there is really no
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31 link between this FFS format and the Openmoko+Pirelli duo, other than the
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32 happenstance of me having first encountered this FFS on these two GSM device
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33 brands, and the name TIFFS is more neutrally-descriptive.