/sunxi-tools

tools to help hacking Allwinner A10 devices

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sunxi-tools

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Copyright (C) 2012 Alejandro Mery amery@geeks.cl

Tools to help hacking Allwinner A10 (aka sun4i) based devices and possibly it's successors, that's why the 'x' in the package name.

sunxi-fexc

.fex file (de)compiler

Usage: ./sunxi-fexc [-vq] [-I <infmt>] [-O <outfmt>] [<input> [<output>]]

infmt:  fex, bin  (default:fex)
outfmt: fex, bin  (default:bin)

bin2fex

compatibility shortcut to call sunxi-fexc to decompile a script.bin blob back into .fex format used by Allwinner's SDK to configure the boards.

fex2bin

compatiblity shortcut to call sunxi-fexc to compile a .fex file into the binary form used by the legacy 3.4 kernel ("linux‑sunxi").

sunxi-fel

script interface for talking to the FEL USB handler built in to the CPU. You activate FEL mode by pushing the uboot / recovery button at poweron. See http://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot for a detailed usage guide.

fel-gpio

Simple wrapper (script) around fel-pio and sunxi-fel to allow GPIO manipulations via FEL

fel-sdboot

ARM native sdcard bootloader forcing the device into FEL mode

fel-pio

ARM native helper (binary) for fel-gpio

sunxi-pio

Manipulate PIO register dumps

sunxi-nand-part

Tool for manipulating Allwinner NAND partition tables

jtag-loop.sunxi

ARM native boot helper to force the SD port into JTAG and then stop, to ease debugging of bootloaders.

sunxi-bootinfo

Dump information from Allwinner boot files (boot0 / boot1)

--type=sd	include SD boot info
--type=nand	include NAND boot info (not implemented)

phoenix_info

gives information about a phoenix image created by the phoenixcard utility and optionally extracts the embedded boot code & firmware file from their hidden partitions.

sunxi-meminfo

Tool for reading DRAM settings from registers. Compiled as a static binary for use on android and other OSes. To build this, get a toolchain and run:

make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- sunxi-meminfo

sunxi-script_extractor

A simple tool, which can be executed on a rooted Android device to dump the script.bin blob from RAM via reading /dev/mem. To build this, get a toolchain and run:

make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- sunxi-script_extractor

License

This software is licensed under the terms of GPLv2+ as defined by the Free Software Foundation, details can be read in the COPYING file.