Future Bifferboards...
d1savowed
Out of curiousity, given you are phasing out the 1MB versions of
the board (pretty sure I read that), do you have any plans to make
some different versions of it?
I was thinking one with dual ethernet, as I seem to remember
reading that the RDC chip that you use has support for two ethernet
adapters. Would make a cheap and flexible firewall system (m0nowall
anyone?).
Stu
biff...@yahoo.co.uk
Sorry, no plans for dual ethernet, there are plenty of routers you can
buy which already have that aren't there? Most people will prefer
dual USB, I believe. That's more likely, but I'm not promising
anything ATM.
d1savowed
dongle of some sort :D
Stu
On Nov 26, 12:56 pm, "biffe...@yahoo.co.uk" <biffe...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Laurens Van Houtven
regards
lvh
ma...@wtns.de
8 MB Flash
64 MB Ram
2 x USB 2.0
1 x UART
1 x LAN
some GPIOs (for SPI, I2C, 1W etc...) (if possible more than four )
Regards,
Marco
Alexander Zayats
would be free for peripherals.
Stelios
64MB RAM
2xUSB
Jumper for selecting JTAG or GPIO
~stelios
HKairpost
> I would go for the following:
>
> 64MB RAM
> 2xUSB
>
and having 2 USB would definitely be useful
> Jumper for selecting JTAG or GPIO
biff...@yahoo.co.uk
I've posted some details and pics here:
http://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/Home/2-port-bifferboard
You can order now, although we won't ship until 11th Jan.
thanks,
Biff.
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d1savowed
Liking the new boards!! Just wanted to check, I take it there are no
current plans to increase the memory to 64MB?
Stu
Jason
at the picture the SD card uses a Genesys logic GL827L to add SD/MMC
support as a USB storage device (as per the BB wiki note).
The Genesys website is fairly terse but based upon the following link
SDIO is not available, Biff can you confirm? Link:
http://www.genesyslogic.com/_en/product_01_1.php?id=26
Regards
Jason
On Jan 2, 6:27 pm, "biffe...@yahoo.co.uk" <biffe...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
biff...@yahoo.co.uk
> I guess there is no SDIO support on the internal SDIO card ... looking
> at the picture the SD card uses a Genesys logic GL827L to add SD/MMC
> support as a USB storage device (as per the BB wiki note).
Correct, there is no SDIO support.
regards,
Biff.
Andrew Scheller
Couple of questions...
Is there a similar 'resistor trick' needed to swap the pins between JTAG & GPIO?
Do the pin-headers come pre-soldered, or is it like the original
bifferboard where we have to add them ourselves?
The serial-pinout is unfortunately slightly different - are you
planning to ship some kind of 'adaptor' with the boards, so we can use
our existing console cables?
Presumably we could just copy an existing (unmodified?) rootfs onto a
SD card, and the kernel would just load root from that (i.e. it would
appear as /dev/sda1 ?), giving us two free USB ports?
Could you update the wiki page to say if the button is still GPIO15 ?
What does the non-SMT LED on the IO board indicate?
Maybe biffboot needs to be clarified WRT what 'boot from MMC' means,
now that there's two mmc-connection options ;)
Lurch
2010/1/2 biff...@yahoo.co.uk <biff...@yahoo.co.uk>:
Andrew Scheller
Lurch
2010/1/2 Razvan Dragomirescu <razvan.dr...@gmail.com>:
biff...@yahoo.co.uk
> Very interesting!
> Couple of questions...
> Is there a similar 'resistor trick' needed to swap the pins between JTAG & GPIO?
Removing R37 and R38 on the CPU board should do the trick, however I
haven't tested this yet, so therefore haven't written it up.
> Do the pin-headers come pre-soldered, or is it like the original
> bifferboard where we have to add them ourselves?
Headers are as pictured.
> The serial-pinout is unfortunately slightly different - are you
> planning to ship some kind of 'adaptor' with the boards, so we can use
> our existing console cables?
No. I plan to start providing keyed serial connectors to prevent
incorrect connection. So far the majority of boards we get back seem
to have faulty console port but with everything else working, leading
me to suspect the current 3-pin arrangement leads to people plugging
in the wrong way round and damaging the RDC CPU. I may be on the
wrong track, but I feel better safe than sorry.
> Presumably we could just copy an existing (unmodified?) rootfs onto a
> SD card, and the kernel would just load root from that (i.e. it would
> appear as /dev/sda1 ?), giving us two free USB ports?
Yes.
> Could you update the wiki page to say if the button is still GPIO15 ?
It is.
> What does the non-SMT LED on the IO board indicate?
It's for the SD card.
> Maybe biffboot needs to be clarified WRT what 'boot from MMC' means,
> now that there's two mmc-connection options ;)
Maybe....
> Lurch
>
Biff.
Poulton, Stuart W.L.
1 - Any pictures of the case for the 2 port bifferboards ?
2 - Can you use both USB sockets and the SD card at the same time ?
Cheers
Stuart
eb4fbz
for their NAS Dongle products (http://www.mrt-communication.com/WANSER-
R.htm). So the box offered was exactly the same.
For those interested in a photo of the 2xUSB version, it's likely to
be the same as this: http://www.mrt-communication.com/NAS-R104.htm
They also ofered a 2xUSB version without SD card but gigabit LAN.
biff...@yahoo.co.uk
Sorry for the delay, but I wanted to take my own pictures, and didn't
have a case when I did the original page. Please see the updated
page.