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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #45 on: January 09, 2012, 08:08:09 pm »
They should offer the old layout as an optional purchase, along with their other ones. it looks key-compatible.

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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #46 on: January 14, 2012, 01:20:16 pm »
I've finally connected my TI-Phoenix 1 to my RS232 interface, and got the oldest Nspire bootlog! :D

The Boot1 is not a boot1 from TI. It's the free U-Boot 1.1.2 !!!

The Boot2 is from TI and takes much time as it does install the OS on each reboot, like on the P1-EVT2.

At the end of the boot, the Datalight command shel is active and let you discover the file system.


Have fun reading:

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U-Boot 1.1.2 (Jan 23 2006 - 11:21:34)

U-Boot code: 11080000 -> 110E3094  BSS: -> 110EF750
RAM Configuration:
Bank #0: 10000000 32 MB
Flash: 512 kB
NAND:32 MB
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

NAND read: device 0 offset 16384, size 1425408 ...  1425408 bytes read: OK
## Starting application at 0x10C00000 ...
Phoenix BOOT2



Initializing graphics subsystem.


Initializing filesystem.
Datalight Reliance v2.00.0451
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2005 Datalight, Inc.
Registered to #9DE08703
FlashFX sample project for the OMAP5912 OSK running Nucleus
Datalight FlashFX Pro v2.0 Build 966
Nucleus Edition for ARM9
Copyright (c) 1993-2005 Datalight, Inc.
Patents: US#5860082, US#6260156.
Detected FfxDelay() parameters: Count=59276 MicroSec=8192 Shift=13
FFX: NAND chip manufacturer: ST Micro (20) chip NAND256W3A (75)
FlashFX SDK License ID #57363077
Filesystem ready.


Beginning system initialization.
Preparing file system...
Datalight Reliance v2.00.0451
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2005 Datalight, Inc.
Registered to #9DE08703
FlashFX sample project for the OMAP5912 OSK running Nucleus
Datalight FlashFX Pro v2.0 Build 966
Nucleus Edition for ARM9
Copyright (c) 1993-2005 Datalight, Inc.
Patents: US#5860082, US#6260156.
Detected FfxDelay() parameters: Count=60132 MicroSec=8192 Shift=13
FFX: NAND chip manufacturer: ST Micro (20) chip NAND256W3A (75)
FlashFX SDK License ID #57363077
File system ready.
Unpacking data...
Creating directory phoenix
Unpacking file phoenix/components
Creating directory phoenix/ctlg
Creating directory phoenix/ctlg/locales
Creating directory phoenix/ctlg/locales/en
Unpacking file phoenix/ctlg/locales/en/all.res
Unpacking file phoenix/ctlg/locales/en/strings.res
Unpacking file phoenix/ctlg/locales/en/units.res
Creating directory phoenix/dcol
Creating directory phoenix/dcol/locales
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Unpacking file phoenix/dcol/locales/en/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/geog
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Creating directory phoenix/geog/locales/de
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Creating directory phoenix/geog/locales/en
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Creating directory phoenix/geog/locales/fr
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Creating directory phoenix/math
Creating directory phoenix/math/locales
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Creating directory phoenix/ntpd
Creating directory phoenix/ntpd/locales
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Unpacking file phoenix/ntpd/locales/en/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/r2d2
Creating directory phoenix/r2d2/locales
Creating directory phoenix/r2d2/locales/en
Unpacking file phoenix/r2d2/locales/en/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/scpd
Creating directory phoenix/scpd/locales
Creating directory phoenix/scpd/locales/en
Unpacking file phoenix/scpd/locales/en/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/syst
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/localenames
Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales
Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales/da
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/locales/da/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales/de
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/locales/de/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales/en
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/locales/en/dialogs.res
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Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales/fr
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/locales/fr/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales/it
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/locales/it/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/syst/locales/no
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/locales/no/strings.res
Creating directory phoenix/syst/settings
Unpacking file phoenix/syst/settings/factory.zip
Creating directory phoenix/tblt
Creating directory phoenix/tblt/locales
Creating directory phoenix/tblt/locales/en
Unpacking file phoenix/tblt/locales/en/strings.res
Finished unpacking.
System build date: Feb 15 2006, 10:21:15
Launching system...

Datalight Command Shell for Nucleus

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phoenix file mgt server  built 14-Feb-2006 [39C12713; 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0]


phoenix connectivity test server  built 14-Feb-2006

phoenix nucleus test   built 14-Feb-2006

 c:

C:\>dir

1980-01-01 00:00:00     <Dir> tmp
1980-01-01 00:00:00     <Dir> dev
1980-01-01 00:00:00     <Dir> phoenix
1980-01-01 00:00:00     <Dir> documents
1980-01-01 00:00:00     <Dir> logs
1980-01-01 00:00:00     <Dir> widgets

Free Space: 23708672 bytes

C:\>



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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #47 on: January 14, 2012, 01:36:05 pm »
Well, that's pretty interesting. Since the Boot1 on this device is open source, it means we can analyse it?
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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #48 on: January 14, 2012, 01:41:43 pm »
We would first have to dump it in order to be able to analyse it...

Nothing has ever been dumped on a CAS+ for now.
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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #49 on: January 14, 2012, 03:33:37 pm »
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Is it possible to press a key before this counts down to 0, and get into the U-Boot Monitor shell? It has a command md addr len to display memory contents. There also may be a command nand read addr ofs size to read NAND flash into memory (also nand read.oob addr off size to read the extra "out-of-band" 16 bytes per page)

Edit: Unfortunately TI probably set the delay to 0 seconds, which would make it impossible unless CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined (and it isn't in the default include/configs/omap5912osk.h)
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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #50 on: January 14, 2012, 05:44:47 pm »
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Is it possible to press a key before this counts down to 0, and get into the U-Boot Monitor shell? It has a command md addr len to display memory contents. There also may be a command nand read addr ofs size to read NAND flash into memory (also nand read.oob addr off size to read the extra "out-of-band" 16 bytes per page)

Edit: Unfortunately TI probably set the delay to 0 seconds, which would make it impossible unless CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined (and it isn't in the default include/configs/omap5912osk.h)

I can see the countdown but it's very fast.
I tried to press a key but it didn't trigger anything. I'll try again... Thanks.
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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #51 on: January 14, 2012, 09:36:14 pm »
it might want a signal over serial to trigger it. Just a thought.

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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2012, 09:49:06 pm »
it might want a signal over serial to trigger it. Just a thought.
Good point. Looking at the U-Boot source code, both input and output default to serial (and it's unlikely TI would change the input to be the calc keypad while leaving the output as is).
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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #53 on: January 15, 2012, 11:51:05 am »
Try press and hold the space bar on the Hyperterminal side while rebooting, to see if that
brings up the U-Boot shell.
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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #54 on: January 26, 2012, 03:22:20 pm »
i just noticed something (thanks to levak's clipboard dumper),
this is a part of the data that is used to copy the lua files to readable files for the software, and look at the name Ö:

com.ti.et.phoenix.jni.ClipboardObject

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Re: Even more early TI-Nspire prototype discovery
« Reply #55 on: January 26, 2012, 03:28:28 pm »
Yes, the code name of the early prototypes remains at a number of places in production models :)
The second generation of Nspires, i.e. the CX (and probably CM, they're just stripped-down CX), has the "Firebird" code name. Once in a while, we may see that name pop up somewhere.
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