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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 03/31/2022 10:21 AM
add information about booting Parabola

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h1. TestingInfrastructure
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h2. Applications that can be used to do some testing on the device
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* https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.zeroxlab.zeroxbenchmark
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h2. Projects and/or hardware that can be used to do functional testing
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h3. Lava
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"Lava":https://www.linaro.org/engineering/projects/lava/ can be used to do functional tests on real hardware. It can be easily installed on PureOS, an FSDG compliant GNU/Linux distribution.
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h3. Labgrid
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"Labgrid":https://labgrid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ has features similar to Lava but it is probably easier to learn because it's probably way easier to get started with it.
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h3. OsmoGSMTester
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The "OsmoGSMTester project":https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-gsm-tester is able to be interfaced with the Android RIL through ofono and can emulate a GSM network with the help of a compatible GSM base station or SDR.
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This "presentation from 2019":https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcon2019-119-osmo-gsm-tester-e-gprs-test-setup has many insights on what kind of issue we might expect in interfacing it with smartphones.
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h3. Simtrace2
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The "Simtrace 2 project":https://osmocom.org/projects/simtrace2/wiki can be used, along with SIM card readers to programmatically feed a SIM card to a smartphone. This can be used to run test on real networks.
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h2. Replicant supported devices and testing
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h3. Requirements
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* Antenna connector for the modem
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* The ability to control the device buttons in order to be able to programmatically power on and off the device, and trigger boots into the bootloader and recovery
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* Optionally a way to connect to the serial port, programmatically
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h3. Galaxy SII (GT-I9100)
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* The Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) has:
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** An antenna connector. According to the "External Antenna Socket - WARNING forum thread on XDA":https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/external-antenna-socket-warning.1273292/page-6 , it's an MS-162
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** The SOC serial port that is accessible behind the USB connector at a low voltage
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** A full size mini-sim (easier to interface with)
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Holding the smartphone in place:
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* The smartphone could either be screwed on a metallic surface or an external case could be screwed on a metallic surface enabling the smartphone not to move.
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SIM cards:
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* Simtrace and Simtrace 2 both "lacks screw holes":https://osmocom.org/issues/3711 so a way must be found to make sure that it doesn't move as it uses flex cables to interface with the SIM socket of the smartphone. That may be fixed in a subsequent hardware revision.
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Serial port and USB:
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Buttons:
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Battery:
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Antenna connector and GSM tower or SDR:
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The Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) has two antenna connectors:
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* One internal connector, TODO: find the connector type
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* One external connector, TODO: Find the connector type
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h4. Example setup
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See also the links inside the [[Serial_port]] article for more background on how to get serial port access on devices like the Galaxy SIII (GT-I9300) or the Galaxy SII (GT-I9100).
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!i9100.jpg!
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See https://git.replicant.us/contrib/GNUtoo/test-infrastructure.git for the source of the file.
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h4. Using a device without a battery.
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* "How to use a Galaxy SIII without a battery":https://techblog.jeppson.org/2017/12/revive-old-samsung-galaxy-s3/ : It doesn't look very safe to do that as the phone is probably not expecting 5V on the battery connector but it gives some idea of the peak tolerances.
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* The Galaxy SIII 4G (GT-I9305) could probably work at lower voltages like 3.3V through the battery connector, but it would require testing it. In that case it might also be a good idea to test it in all configurations (all hardware features being used, cpuburn etc).
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* The 4 pin 'FPC' style battery connector available from amazon, marketed as being for the 'S4 value edition i9515' (https://amazon.de/gp/product/B0813JBW8S) is capable of contacting the Galaxy SIII (GT-I9300)'s battery.
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h4. Sumarry 
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| Device                  | Modem antenna connector | Compatible software       | Comments                                                                                                  |                         
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| Motorolla C155          | MS-147                  | * OsmocomBB
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                                                      * Old Nuttx revisions     | Could be used as reference phone as it's probably already supported by the Osmocom testing infrastructure |
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| Galaxy SII (GT-I9100)   | MS-162                  | * Replicant 4.0, 4.2, 6.0
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                                                     * Upstream Linux (partial) |
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| Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) | ?                       | * Replicant 4.0, 4.2, 6.0 | We can get some GSM traces in wireshark with xgoldmon                                                     |
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| Galaxy SIII (GT-I9300)  | ?                       | * Replicant 4.0, 4.2, 6.0
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                                                     * Upstream Linux (partial) |
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h2. USB modems
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When [[XMMProtocolInterfaces|trying to enable protocol tracing in modems]] we can connect the device modem (somewhat directly) to a laptop
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Questions:
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* Do we have samsung-ipc on top of the virtual UARTs?
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* The cbd daemon mentioned "in the blog post about booting the Galaxy S7 modem":https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/09/10/booting-samsung-galaxy-s7-modem  doesn't list UART as main link though.
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* Adding the modem USB id when in debug mode (1519:0020) in a search engine shows various usb keys
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* Do phones like the Galaxy SII have smasung-ipc on top of the USB link or UART links when in debug mode?
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h2. Pure software setup
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h3. lightweight test infrastructure for libsamsung-ipc
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It might be possible to have a pure software test infrastructure with libsamsung-ipc.
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It could be done more or less like that:
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test script <-> ipc-modem or other programs <-> libsamsung-ipc <-> Linux kernel <-> VHCI <-> software sending USB packets
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We have several choices for the Linux kernel:
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| Kernels                   | Comments |
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| User mode Linux (ARCH=um) | (+) Very lightweight, runs completely in userspace 
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                              (-) Requires patches for USB / VHCI                               |
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| Linux + libvirt + kvm     | (-) Require some virtualization setup that requires dedicated RAM 
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                              (+) Probably works unpatched                                      |
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And there is already some projects emulating usb devices:
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| Project     | Description               |   comments                         |
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| gnuk        | USB token software        | can build for gnulinux             |
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| choptix     | Library used by gnuk      | More simple examples               |
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| simtrace2 ? | SIM tracing and MITM tool | Probably uses vusb for testing too |
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So it might be possible to modify them to send some simple USB packets captured with wireshark / tshark / tcpdump.
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h4. user mode Linux
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I've already managed to find a configuration that works in an FSDG compliant way:
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| Settings                                                                     | Status           |
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| *kernel*: kernel_replicant_linux 
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           (replicant-11-test branch at the time of writing) 
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  *compilation settings*: ARCH=um
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  *Host architecture*: x86_64
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  *kernel defconfig*: x86_64_defconfig
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  *Target Distribution*: Parabola x86_64
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  *commandline arguments*: ./linux mem=2047M ubd0=parabola.img root=/dev/ubda1 | Boots fine       |
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| *kernel*: kernel_replicant_linux or upstream Linux 
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  *compilation settings*: ARCH=um
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  *Host architecture*: i686 or x86_64
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  *kernel defconfig*: i686_defconfig                                           | Fails to compile |
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To run Parabola first you need to create an image.
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Then you need to chroot (with arch-chroot) insde the image and change the password.
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Once you exited the chroot and unmounted the image and removed the loop mapping, you can boot it.
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During boot you'll see a message like that at the end:
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Virtual console 1 assigned device '/dev/pts/4'
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You can then login in this way:
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<pre>
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$ sudo picocom /dev/pts/4 
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picocom v3.1
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port is        : /dev/pts/4
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flowcontrol    : none
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baudrate is    : 9600
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parity is      : none
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databits are   : 8
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stopbits are   : 1
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escape is      : C-a
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local echo is  : no
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noinit is      : no
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noreset is     : no
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hangup is      : no
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nolock is      : no
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send_cmd is    : sz -vv
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receive_cmd is : rz -vv -E
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imap is        : 
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omap is        : 
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emap is        : crcrlf,delbs,
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logfile is     : none
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initstring     : none
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exit_after is  : not set
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exit is        : no
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Type [C-a] [C-h] to see available commands
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Terminal ready
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parabola login: root
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Password: 
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[root@parabola ~]# cat /etc/os-release 
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NAME="Parabola"
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PRETTY_NAME="Parabola GNU/Linux-libre"
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ID=parabola
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ID_LIKE=arch
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BUILD_ID=rolling
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ANSI_COLOR="1;35"
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HOME_URL="https://www.parabola.nu/"
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DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.parabola.nu/"
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SUPPORT_URL="irc://chat.freenode.net#parabola"
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BUG_REPORT_URL="https://labs.parabola.nu/"
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LOGO=parabola
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[root@parabola ~]# 
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TODO:
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* We probably need to make i686 and armv7 to work too.
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* We need to find and port the USB patches on top of kernel_replicant_linux
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* We also need to setup USB somehow with vhci_hcd and so on
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* We still need to find a very simple stack to send URBs.