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The generic tiffs utility needs to be invoked as follows: tiffs [global-options] <imgfile> <org> <cmd> [command-args] The first 3 non-optional arguments are the filename of the TIFFS image under examination, the FFS organization being examined, and the operation to be performed. The present utility is designed in the classic Unix manner in that each invokation performs a single operation and exits, such that invokations of tiffs (or one of the wrappers described below) may be plumbed into pipes and the like. The 2nd argument to tiffs after the FFS image filename describes how the TIFFS instance under study is organized in terms of flash sectors. The syntax of this argument is KxN, where K is the flash sector size in KiB and N is the number of sectors occupied by the FFS. For MokoFFS images the correct organization argument is 64x7 (7 sectors of 64 KiB each), for Pirelli's FFS images it is 256x18 (18 sectors of 256 KiB each), for TIFFS images read out of Tango modules with S71PL064J flash it is 64x15 (15 sectors of 64 KiB each), and for TIFFS images read out of FreeCalypso development boards with S71PL129N flash it is 256x8 (8 sectors of 256 KiB each). The following global options may be given before the image filename argument: -a num Use the specified flash block (sector) as the inode array block. -o offset The FFS image begins at the specified offset within the file, rather than at the beginning. This option is useful when working with complete device flash dumps of which FFS is only a part, starting somewhere other than at 0. -O The location field in the inode structure is 16 bits rather than 32, stored in the upper two bytes out of the four. This old FFS format (limited to 1 MiB total FFS size) was used by *very* old versions of TI's firmware and is incompatible with our "current" fw versions; so far the only encountered example of this old FFS format was found on the D-Sample board which the Mother scored in 2015 - it came with a firmware image dated 20020917. -r ino Use the specified inode as the root. Per the Mother's convention, TIFFS inode numbers are always given in hex, hence this argument is interpreted as hex without needing a 0x prefix. The invokation syntax for mokoffs and pirffs wrappers is the same as for tiffs, except that the FFS organization argument (64x7 or 256x18) is omitted; the wrapper fills that argument in before passing the command to the main tiffs program. The only other difference is that instead of the generic -o global option, mokoffs takes a -f global option (no argument) which indicates that one is working with a complete flash dump image, rather than just the FFS portion; mokoffs -f gets translated into tiffs -o0x380000. (pirffs has no such option at all because Pirelli's FFS starts at offset 0 within its respective flash chip select.) tiffs-8m is another similar wrapper; it is a more recent addition for working with TIFFS images from platforms like D-Sample and Tango that use TI's 8 MiB flash configuration. tiffs-8m strictly parallels mokoffs except than it is 64x15 instead of 64x7, and -f turns into -o0x700000 instead of -o0x380000. The next argument after the FFS organization for tiffs (or after the image filename for mokoffs, pirffs or tiffs-8m) is the command (or operation) to be performed. The following tiffs commands are currently available: General information commands ============================ These commands display general or summary information about the FFS image: tiffs <...> blkhdr This command displays the basic information contained in the header of each flash erase block comprising the FFS image. tiffs <...> fsinfo This command displays some general information about the file system. Standard listing/extraction commands ==================================== These commands list or extract the normally-visible content of the FFS, i.e., the content which is visible when the FFS is "mounted" normally, and which the FFS promises to preserve - as opposed to deleted or overwritten content. tiffs <...> ls [-v[v]] [pathname...] Tiffs ls without additional arguments yields a listing of the complete FFS directory tree, akin to tar tv. Example output fragment: fr 4096 /.journal d /gsm d /gsm/rf d /gsm/rf/tx f 512 /gsm/rf/tx/ramps.900 f 128 /gsm/rf/tx/levels.900 f 128 /gsm/rf/tx/calchan.900 The first character is 'f' for files or 'd' for directories. An 'r' following immediately afterward means that the object has the read-only attribute set. For files the listing includes the content size in bytes, and the last part is the pathname of the object within the FFS. With a single -v option added after ls, the output will include verbose information as to the segmentation structure of each file. With two -v options or with -vv, this additional output will also include the byte offset of each data chunk, relative to the beginning of the FFS image. Tiffs ls with a pathname argument yields information about the specified FFS object; -v and -vv options act as already described, but are arguably more useful when listing single files. tiffs <...> cat [-v|-h] pathname Just like the standard Unix cat(1) command, but cat'ing files from the FFS image under study. The non-standard -h option means hex dump - it is handy because almost all files in TI's GSM device FFS are binary, rather than ASCII. tiffs <...> xtr dest-dir This command extracts the complete content of the FFS into your ordinary Unix file system. The sole argument is the local directory into which the root of the GSM device FFS should be extracted. tiffs <...> decode file-keyword [band] For some files in TIFFS doing a hex dump with tiffs cat -h (see above) is sufficient for easily understanding the content of the file, but for other files such as RF parameter tables further developer-friendly decoding is greatly desirable. The generic solution is to extract the complete FFS content with tiffs xtr and then apply further tools for analysis, but this fully generic solution involves a lot of clutter. For some TIFFS files which often need to be looked at and for which tiffs cat -h is insufficient, tiffs decode offers a shorthand. The following files can be decoded in this way: Command File being decoded ---------------------------------------------------------- tiffs <...> decode adccal /sys/adccal tiffs <...> decode afcdac /gsm/rf/afcdac tiffs <...> decode afcparams /gsm/rf/afcparams tiffs <...> decode stdmap /gsm/rf/stdmap tiffs <...> decode tx-ramps <band> /gsm/rf/tx/ramps.<band> tiffs <...> decode tx-levels <band> /gsm/rf/tx/levels.<band> tiffs <...> decode tx-calchan <band> /gsm/rf/tx/calchan.<band> tiffs <...> decode tx-caltemp <band> /gsm/rf/tx/caltemp.<band> tiffs <...> decode rx-calchan <band> /gsm/rf/rx/calchan.<band> tiffs <...> decode rx-caltemp <band> /gsm/rf/rx/caltemp.<band> tiffs <...> decode rx-agcparams <band> /gsm/rf/rx/agcparams.<band> tiffs <...> decode pcm-IMEI /pcm/IMEI Forensic analysis commands ========================== Unlike the "standard" listing/extraction commands which present TIFFS as a "normal" Unix file system, using the "forensic" commands effectively requires that the operator understands how TIFFS works, in particular, what an inode is in TIFFS. tiffs <...> lsino [-v[v]] This command lists the FFS inode array from first to last; this listing order will normally correspond to the forward chronological order of object creation. -v and -vv options add verbosity. '.' in the object type column means segment, '~' means a deleted object. The lsino command only lists the inode array, and does not try to recover the original type of deleted/overwritten objects from the journal or other clues. The program attempts to recover the pathname of each inode, but because such reverse mapping from inodes to pathnames is not an operation which TIFFS was properly designed to support, and the pathname recovery algorithm in this TIFFS IVA tool is made as generic as possible (doesn't look at the object types), the lsino listing will occasionally include some bogus pathnames. Once again, it is expected that the operator knows what s/he is doing when using these forensic commands. tiffs <...> lsino [-v[v]] [-f] ino... This command works just like ls with an explicit pathname argument, but takes one or more inode numbers instead. The -f option matters only if the requested inode is in the deleted/overwritten state; it tells the lsino command to assume that the object is/was the head inode of a file; -vf and -vvf combinations are particularly useful. tiffs <...> catino [-v|-h] ino Just like regular cat, but takes an inode number instead of a pathname. Can be used to cat the old content of deleted or overwritten files.