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Free Software on
GSM Phones
December 29, 2005
22C3
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by
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
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OpenEZX
Introduction
Who is speaking to you?
an independent Free Software developer
who earns his living off Free Software since 1997
who is one of the authors of the Linux kernel firewall system called netfilter/iptables
who can claim to be the first to have enforced the GNU GPL in court
who is doing way too many projects simultaneously, one of them OpenEZX
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OpenEZX
Contents
Disclaimer
What is OpenEZX
History of Motorola Linux Phones
A780 / E680(i) overview
Techniques for reverse engineering
Current status of information about EZX phones
OpenEZX software status
Another Linux GSM Phone: HTC BlueAngel
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OpenEZX
Disclaimer
Disclaimer
I have no affiliation with Motorola
OpenEZX project has no affiliation with Motorola
All Information is based on observation, and may be wrong
Lots of the work has been done by a large community, I'm a newbie ;)
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OpenEZX
What is OpenEZX
OpenEZX project
to document EZX phone hardware and software
to provide 100% free software stack for frontend CPU
might at some future point in time also look into GSM/RF related hacks
Homepage: http://openezx.org/ (http://open-ezx.org)
Wiki: http://wiki.openezx.org/
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OpenEZX
History
History of Motorola Linux based gsm phones
A760, A768
Released in Asia in 2003
EZX (A780, E680, E680i)
E680 sold only in asian market
A780 sold in China since August 2004
A780 first Motorola Linux phone available in EU/US
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OpenEZX
A780
The A780 phone
Quad-band GSM
AGPS
GPRS, EDGE, HSCSD
Intel Xscale based
Monta Vista CE Linux
Bluetooth
USB device port (modem / mass storage)
Transflash slot (SD-card in smaller form factor)
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OpenEZX
E680/E680i
The E680 phone
Like A780
No GPS
full-size SD/MMC slot
FM Radio
minor differences in Audio system, GPIO assignment, ...
The E680i phone
seems to only differ in software
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OpenEZX
Techniques for re-engineering
learn about the device
take the device apart
take high-res PCB photographs
FCC database sometimes quite helpful
remove all the shielding covers
write down types of all integrated circuits
google for those circuits, try locating data sheets
sometimes service manuals can be obtained for small fees
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OpenEZX
Techniques for re-engineering
try to find a serial console port
successful in many embedded devices
all you need is a 3.3v<->RS232 level shifter
A780: checking all 100+ test points with an oscilloscope :(
unfortunately not successful in the case of A780
try to find a JTAG port
cheap JTAG / parallel port adaptors available or DYI
only helps if you also have a BSDL file or similar
hard to figure out which of the five pins is which
be aware: there might be multiple JTAG ports for multiple IC's
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OpenEZX
Techniques for re-engineering
access to the OS instead of the UI
serial console helps in many cases, not in this one
networked devices sometimes have telnet/ssh available
exploits of known-to-be-installed software (zlib-1.1.3)
try "weird button combinations" at startup
access to flash memory
read out via JTAG
if you have shell access, dd if=/dev/mtd* of=...
via vendor-supplied flash programming tool
copy / unpack / mount flash image to PC workstation
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OpenEZX
Techniques for re-engineering
simulation
running ARM binaries from device in QEMU emulation
commercial ARM emulators
disassembling
WARNING: may be illegal in most jurisdictions
use gnu binutils (objdump, ...)
use special-purpose proprietary tools (IDA Pro)
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OpenEZX
A780 Hardware
In short
A Motorola Neptune LTE based mobile phone plus
A PXA270 Xscale based PDA in one case
Application Processor (PXA270)
runs heavily modified linux-2.4.20 kernel
48MB RAM
48MB "wireless" flash
software-configurable clock speed up to 400MHz
JTAG port on test pads, BSDL file and JFlash available
SPI/SSP interface to PCAP and BP
directly attached to 320x200 LCD display
directly attached to touch screen, buttons
directly attached to 1.3Mpixel camera module
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A780 Hardware
Baseband Processor (Neptune LTE)
contains ARM7TDMI for GSM stack
contains 566xx DSP for digital baseband
JTAG port on test pads, but no BSDL file
Connected to Application processor via USB
SPI/SSP interface to PCAP and AP
UART connected to AGPS processor
Connects to GSM SIM module
8MB external flash
2MB external RAM
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A780 Hardware
AGPS Processor (Motorola Telematics MG4100)
Attached to UART of BP
Has it's own Flash and RAM (2MB?)
PCAP2 (power management, clock and audio peripheral)
produces a 16 different voltages
handles all mono/stereo audio
connected to 2 speakers, microphone, vibrator
clock generation
SPI/SSP interface to AP and BP
Backlight control
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OpenEZX
A780 Hardware
RF Part (not very much information known)
RF6003
fractional-n RF synthesizer
RF2722
GPRS/EDGE capable receiver (RX)
RF3144
quad-band power amplifier (TX))))
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OpenEZX
A780 AP Software
linux-2.4.20
whole bunch of montavista additions
dynamic power management
EZX arm subarchitecture
low-level drivers for
SPI/SSP
PCAP Audio (mono/stereo/headset/...)
Vibrator (/dev/vibrator)
USB host port attached to BP
USB device port (belcarra usbd, not gadget)
Transflash/SD/MMC
THREE proprietary flash file systems
Intel VFM (hatcreek.o)
m-systems DiskOnChip (tffs.o)
third unknown
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A780 AP Software
mux_cli.o
hooks into special functions of USB host driver
provides GSM TS07.10 (de)multiplex
userspace has tty devices
gprsv.o
implements GPRS line discipline for mux_cli ttys
hooks into netfilter to intercept DNS packets ?!?
provides gprs0 / grps1 network devices
ipsec.o
proprietary ipsec stack (don't we already have two GPL licensed?)
Copyright Certicom Corp
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OpenEZX
A780 Software
Libraries
glibc
Bluetooth
proprietary userspace program directly opens HCI
GPS
no NMEA, no serial device emulation :(
proprietary library via mux_cli kernel module
UI
embeddedQt
Motorola EZX toolkit
Java
Full J2ME support
(but who wants java if there's linux?)
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OpenEZX
A780 Software
Apps
Opera
Helix Player with codecs
aac, amr, mp4, realvideo, mid, mp3, mp4, wma
movianVPN
proprietary IPsec VPN client
CoPilot
proprietary GPS navigation, map&route program
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OpenEZX
EZX Firmware Images
EZX Firmware Images
Motorola ships .SHX firmware images to service centres
No legal way for users to get FW updates
Proprietary Windows apps flash phone via USB
Motorola PST
Motorola RSD lite
SHX files contain 'code groups'
AP bootloader (blob based)
AP linux kernel
AP root filesystem
AP /ezxlocal filesystem
AP "language pack"
Bootup Logo/Animation
BP OS
DSP code
Cryptographic Signature(s)
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OpenEZX
EZX bootloader
EZX bootloader
based on GPL licensed blob
source code not yet released by Motorola
low-level initialization code (GPIO config, clock, ...)
vendor specific USB device that allows for
transfer of executable code from USB host
execution of transferred executable
serial console code is present in binary, but not used :(
PST/RSD firmware updates work by uploading a 'ramloader'
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OpenEZX
EZX USB (EMU)
EZX phones seem to have USB device port
Actually, it's "Enhanced Mini USB" (EMU)
Depending on pullup/pulldown/... resistors
USB device port
Serial port (RS232 at 3.3V levels)
Stereo audio signal
500mA charger
Carkit (easy install, professionally installed)
Factory test
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EZX USB (EMU)
USB Configurations
Even in USB device EMU mode, there are many configs
Official configs
cdc_acm (serial modem emulation for host pc)
USB mass storage (transflash and VFAT-on-TFFS devices)
Undocumented configs
usbnet (network device over USB)
Allows telnet into phone
PST
Mode used by PST Windows App
DSPlog
Apparently a way to dump data from DSP
NetMonitor
supposedly for GSM network monitor
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OpenEZX
Status
Status of OpenEZX
fairly good picture about phone architecture
initial 2.6.14 port done, still lots of bugs
Updated toolchain (gcc-3.4)
EZX / OPIE / embeddedQt integration
Linux native BlueZ bluetooth working
netfilter/iptables port (you can do NAT between GPRS and usbnet)
nmap/tcpdump/af_packet.o
lsof, busybox, bash2,
gameboy emulator
qonsole (qt console app with OSD keyboard)
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OpenEZX
TODO
TODO
get 2.6.x kernel fully running, including all drivers + power management
write free software backend to talk to Neptune LTE (tapisrv)
reimplement mux_cli and gprsv kernel modules
some reference application that can make voice and/or data calls from the commandline
USB On-The-GO support (hardware support present!)
discover how DSPlog, PST, other interfaces work
write linux-based app for phone flashing via USB
dm-crypt for your personal contacts/data
native IPsec
ScummVM port [320x240 and touchpad, ideal!] :)
at some point merge with openembedded.org ?
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Next-generation netfilter
Thanks
Thanks to
the BBS scene, Z-Netz, FIDO, ...
for heavily increasing my computer usage in 1992
KNF (http://www.franken.de/)
for bringing me in touch with the internet as early as 1994
for providing a playground for technical people
for telling me about the existance of Linux!
Alan Cox, Alexey Kuznetsov, David Miller, Andi Kleen
for implementing (one of?) the world's best TCP/IP stacks
Astaro AG
for sponsoring parts of my free software work
Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de/)
for providing an inspiring environment for cool hacks
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The slides and the an according paper of this presentation are available at http://svn.gnumonks.org/projects/presentations
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