On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:09 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Drasko DRASKOVIC
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Great, thanks a lot John.
>>
>> I has just a little trouble with their miniPCI card, as it has only
>> one hole in the middle, and will not fit into the standard miniPCI
>> connector, which demand two holes on the top.
>
> It is not a miniPCI card. They just used the miniPCI connector. It is
> in no-way compatible with miniPCI.
>
> They bring out the Ethernet, USB, I2C, SPI from the rt5350 to the
> miniPCI connector pins.
>
>>
>> How do you plan to fix this card?

We did the same thing with this module. it reused the miniPCIe connector.
http://www.redwirellc.com/store/node/6

We secure it with a couple of screws and small plastic stand offs.


>>
>> BR,
>> Drasko
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:59 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> We believe The miniPCI version has enough on the connector to attach a
>>>> SD Card using SPI.
>>>
>>> miniPCI version brings out all of the SPI lines and the unused CS1.
>>> That should work to interface to a SD Card. Linux kernel has support
>>> for SD cards attached over SPI.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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