On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Drasko DRASKOVIC
<drasko.drasko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, have you seen this one :
> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/815002442/RT5350_wifi_module_oem.html

I think I found out those were 88Y ($14.19). That is twice the price of Toplink.


>
> Looks even more interesting to me, as it seem to be better described.
> This company haowever have not been so responsive in my case, still
> waiting on some contacts.
>
> I can see that they go up to 64MB RAM, but I do not trust these
> Alibaba adds too much...
>
> BR,
> Drasko
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:24 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com <jonsm...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Drasko DRASKOVIC
>> <drasko.drasko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>> You will have to know RAM controller config to prepare RAM before
>>> writing into it. This usually goes to OpenOCD script and is executed
>>> via MIPS EJTAG. But is often just a question of writing several
>>> registers (sometimes in the right order)
>>>
>>> You can look in U-Boot code from Carambola (8th devices), and see if
>>> you can find something useful there.
>>>
>>> Does not Toplink provide U-Boot and Linux? If yes, then U-Boot will
>>> set-up RAM, and from there on you can put stuff there.
>>
>> Not sure yet how the board will be set up when they come. English is
>> not their strong suit so it is hard asking questions.
>>
>> I definitely want to get all of the source and rebuild everything
>> before shipping anything off to customers. I'm not a fan of blindly
>> trusting binary blobs.
>>
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Drasko
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Daniel Golle <dgo...@allnet.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> On 04/09/2013 12:38 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Does the MIPS u-boot in the OpenWRT tree run on the RT5350? If so,
>>>>
>>>> U-Boot for Ralink chips is not (yet) part of OpenWrt, however, you can 
>>>> compile
>>>> it from the sources on
>>>> https://github.com/8devices/u-boot
>>>>
>>>> Flashing the boards via JTAG will require you to initialize some registers 
>>>> of
>>>> the SoC (at least SDRAM configuration, so you can load U-Boot into the ram 
>>>> and
>>>> flash using U-Boot).
>>>> OpenOCD contains code for some Atheros SoCs, that should be useful to get 
>>>> an
>>>> impression of what needs to be done to support other type of MIPS SoCs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good luck!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
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