On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:13 PM Richard Wilbur <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 18, 2019, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > honestly, just other people helping out - *actually* helping out with > > u-boot, linux kernel etc. - would be a huge relief. > > > > I've been itching to get involved since I picked up my prototype in England > but waiting (too patiently? Should I have bothered/reminded you about it > earlier?) probably :) > for the video how-to you promised to make on how to > non-destructively plug the unenclosed CPU card (without the guides) into > the micro-desktop case. ah, rats. ok. it's fine if you get it wrong as long as it's not powered up. try it and send me some photos. * put MD PCB on a flat surface * processor goes face-up * push PCB in until it meets pins * make sure that the gap amount on each side (left, right) is equal - about 3mm * make sure it's about 1mm off the MD PCB * make sure it's DEAD level * push in GENTLY, making sure that the force applied does not make the Card PCB "rise up" (be anything other than dead-level) if you then inspect into the tunnel, you should see no pins. actually it's perfectly fine to *deliberately* get it wrong, as long as you don't apply power. send a photo looking into the tunnel, ok? > Would the cable-only setup be a valid way to get started? actually that's a good test - you should see the standard allwinner USB device with "lsub" > Should I expect the micro HDMI plug to be alive? no, not really. > I guess the earliest debug output (u-boot?) will likely be on the serial > console available through the EOMA68 connector. yes. the schematics PDF shows the pinouts. in the past i've stuffed serial port wires directly into the PCMCIA header, *and* soldered direct to a socket (!) - soldering to the MD PCB is a *lot* easier. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
