On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Michel Stempin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Le 09/04/2013 21:13, [email protected] a écrit :
>> Does any one actually have one of the TopLink minPCIe boards? Their
>> datasheet doesn't clearly identify the pins. They have pins called
>> LINK1, LINK2, LINK3, LINK4. It is not clear what those pins do. They
>> only expose two of the Ethernet ports so there is no need for four
>> link status pins.
>
> Not yet, but asked for their datasheet and comparing it to the RT5350 
> Preliminary datasheet, trying to sort things out like you do!
>
> Yes, LINK0-4 are the 5 link status LED pins, but these can also be used for 
> bootstrapping configuration and as standard GPIO #22-26, respectively, see 
> table 1-4 in RT5350 datasheet.
>
> Regarding the remainging pins, according to same table:
>  - GPIO #17-21 also correspond to the JTAG pins
>  - UART_TX and UART_RX are probably GPIO #15-16, respectively
>  - GPIO #11-12 are clearly identified as such in the pinout
>  - I2SCLK can only be GPIO #7, according to table 1-5
>  - SPI_CS1 is GPIO #27, and SP_CLK, SPI_MOSI and SPI_MISO are GPIO #4-6, 
> respectively (GPIO #3 is SPI_CS0 and is probably used onboard for selecting 
> the SPI Flash chip)
>  - I2C_SD and I2C_SCLK are GPIO #1-2, respectively
>
> CPURST_N is probably PORST_N and WLAN_LED is WLAN_LED_N.
>
> This leaves GPIO #0, GPIO #8-10 and GPIO #13-14 to implement TopLink pins 
> PWR_LED, SECU_LED, RST_PBC, WPS_LED and WPS_PBC. These can probably be 
> guessed by probing using /sys/class/gpio.

I sent my write up to them and asked them to fill in the blanks. I'm
really hoping the the UART with RTS/CTS (GPIO 7/8/9/10)  is exposed on
the miniPCI version.

I ordered 20 sample boards from them so they should answer me.



>
>
> -Michel
>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Drasko DRASKOVIC
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes,
>>> I have seen these boards and contacted suppliers. they seem really 
>>> responsive.
>>>
>>> I am missing some more flash though. 8MB is just enough, but it seems
>>> like RT5350 chipset does not support more.
>>>
>>> John,
>>> do you know what would be the best way to augment flash on these? Some
>>> cheap NAND? SD Card? What would be the best solution?
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Drasko
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:21 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> It will be a while for the boards to arrive from China. But they look
>>>> really good. 8MB flash, 32MB RAM for less than the $7.50 quotes on
>>>> Aliaba.  Chip antenna or IPEX. JTAG on connector
>>>>
>>>> The one with pins supports one Ethernet. The pseudo-miniPCIe one
>>>> supports two Ethernet.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Wojciech Kromer
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   If so,
>>>>>> then I can load it into RAM via JTAG, jump to it and get flash
>>>>>> commands? That will let me initialize an empty flash.
>>>>>
>>>>> This scenario works fine with rt3352, just try...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Doesn't look like MIPS has the small SRAM region like ARM does. Is
>>>>>> there a write up around somewhere on how to get going with a JTAG on
>>>>>> these chips?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not very familiar with rt5350, but
>>>>> DDRAM setup should be done with bootstrap pins like on rt3352,
>>>>> so you can just try to use whole DDRAM.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards.
>>>>>
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