swicwe is used to manage firmware images for WP/AR products.
This tool is platform-specific (only for WP/AR Series).
Note: swicwe version 1.9 or newer is required to generate SPK files that are compatible for image switching.

 

 

Installation

Ubuntu/Debian Distributions

Follow these instructions for Ubuntu/Debian distributions

wget http://updatesite.sierrawireless.com/swicwe/swicwe_latest.deb -O /tmp/swicwe_latest.deb
sudo apt-get install /tmp/swicwe_latest.deb

Alternate Distributions

• Download swicwe tool archive from this link
• Extract the archive to the location of your choice (e.g. unzip swicwe.zip -d $HOME/legato/swicwe)
• Potentially add this location to your user's path:
  • echo 'export PATH=$HOME/legato/swicwe/linux64:$PATH' >> $HOME/.bashrc -- for 64 bits hosts
  • echo 'export PATH=$HOME/legato/swicwe/linux32:$PATH' >> $HOME/.bashrc -- for 32 bits hosts

Usage

This is a firmware image management tool, that can be used to either parse existing images for information, or create concatenated images from unitary components.

Command options

Run swicwe --help for complete usage details.

swicwe -P|--parse <file.cwe|file.spk>
or
swicwe -o|--output output.spk -c|--cat file1.cwe file2.cwe [fileN.cwe ...]

Options:

-h,--help	Display help message
--full-help	Display help for advanced options
-P|--parse <file.cwe|file.spk>	Parse and display content of input CWE/SPK file
-c|--cat	Generate a concatenated (SPK) file from input CWE files. Input file names have to be specified at the end of the command line
-o|--output <output.spk>	Output SPK file

Example commands

Build a concatenated image

swicwe --output /tmp/image.spk --cat boot.cwe modemz.cwe boot-yocto.cwe legatoz.cwe configFile.cwe

Parse and display image content

swicwe --parse /tmp/image.spk