So beautiful 🙂 Feel like they are unreal.

This manual is used to FCCID…Just first page, there will be more later.

(My English is not that good 🙂 Kindly let me know if there is any mistake)

And about 1700km away, at ShenZhen, the mass production for first 200pcs has online. Here is some factory pictures( First Batch ) There are so many brilliant people working on this 🙂 Thanks for WuTong and Alex taking these pictures.

The software part is stopped this week, focus on the mass production. This can not afford any mistake.

There are a lot of work simultaneously:

-> VoCore v1.0:
Aug.14 ~ Aug.17 First 200 units VoCore v1.0 release version(beta) and test.
Aug.17 ~ Aug.18 Send sample to FCCID.
Aug.17 ~ Aug.25 VoCore v1.0 final PCB mass production.
Aug.26 ~ Sep.06 SMT VoCore and assemble with Dock.
Sep.07 ~ Sep.10 FCCID done, make FCCID tag.
Sep.06 ~ Sep.10 Package and ship.

-> VoCore v1.0 Dock:
Aug.13 ~ Aug.20 Dock PCB mass production.
Aug.21 ~ Aug.25 SMT & Assemble Dock.
Sep.03 ~ Sep.06 Combine VoCore and the Dock.
Sep.06 ~ Sep.10 Package and ship.

-> New site & forum:
Aug.03 ~ Aug.15 Mockup.
Aug.16 ~ Aug.22 Home/Forum/Wiki page.
Aug.22 ~ Aug.25 VoCore Manual, new site online.
Aug.26 ~ Sep.01 Project page.
Sep.01 ~ Sep.15 Store page.

Ship will take about 5~20 days.
From Alpha, average ship time(about 100 package):

Position         Average Time    Note
Australia          8 days        No offical data.
Austria            10 days       No offical data.
Belgium            12 days
Brazil             >40 days      Not arrive yet, just get Brazil.
Bulgaria           14 days
Canada             14 days
Czech Republic     14 days
Denmark            11 days
Finland            14 days
France             10 days
Germany            15 days
Greece             26 days
Hungary            20 days
Israel             22 days
Italy              20 days
Netherlands        10 days
New Zealand        8 days
Norway             17 days
Poland             14 days
Russian Federation 21 days
Spain              36 days
Sweden             30 days
Switzerland        12 days
Taiwan             14 days
Thailand           9 days
Turkey             16 days
United Kingdom     7 days
United States      7 days

To US,UK and Asia the speed is acceptable, 90% packages are delivered in one week; To Europe countries, the speed is fair, about two weeks for most of them, but Spain, Greece, Sweden takes very long time… Even worse, to Brazil, that package is still on the way…I think I can swim there in 40 days.

Yesterday, just get some result from MISO but I do not know whether or not it is right result, or at least it is not random result caused by the noise.

Today, I still not sure whether or not it is right mmc driver request result, but I am sure it is not a random result.

I just test it in this way:
spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s4000000
spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s8000000
spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s16000000
spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s32000000
spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s64000000

4MHz ~ 32MHz are same result. 64MHz is not same as them.

root@OpenWrt:/# spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s32000000
spi mode: 0
bits per word: 8
max speed: 32000000 Hz (32000 KHz)

40 3F E0 00 3F FF 
FF FF FF FF FF F0 
5F FF FF FF FF FF 
FF FC 17 FF FF FF 
FF FF FF FF 05 FF 
FF FF FF FF FF FF 
C1 7F 
root@OpenWrt:/# spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s64000000
spi mode: 0
bits per word: 8
max speed: 60000000 Hz (60000 KHz)

20 1F F0 00 1F FF 
FF FF FF FF FF F8 
2F FF FF FF FF FF 
FF FE 0B FF FF FF 
FF FF FF FF 82 FF 
FF FF FF FF FF FF 
E0 BF 

I do not know a byte of the result, but I am sure the result is not random noise.
So I guess the TF card support up to 30MHz, it is 1/4 of system timer who is 120MHz.

The result has so many 0xFF, that might be an error result due to R3(MISO) is pulled to VCC.
So I change the hardware a little, switch R3 from pulling to VCC to pulling to GND. If the result has many 0x00 replace that 0xFF, the hardware must not right and the result is not really from TF card.

root@OpenWrt:/# spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s32000000
spi mode: 0
bits per word: 8
max speed: 32000000 Hz (32000 KHz)

00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 
root@OpenWrt:/# spidev_test -D/dev/spidev32766.1 -s32000000
spi mode: 0
bits per word: 8
max speed: 32000000 Hz (32000 KHz)

40 3F E0 00 3F FF 
FF FF FF FF FF F0 
5F FF FF FF FF FF 
FF FC 17 FF FF FF 
FF FF FF FF 05 FF 
FF FF FF FF FF FF 
C1 7F 
root@OpenWrt:/# 

First result, the slot of TF card is empty.
Second result, plug TF card into slot. It is same result as we pull MISO to high. I am sure now, the data is from TF card.

So, the hardware is totally fixed, just need to find a way to make the mmc-spi-slot driver work. That will take some time, have to go plan B, no time left for factory firmware.

Finally here is some good news. The SD card reply me.. 😀 Not sure whose problem now(might not the hardware problem), due to the reply is from spidev_test, the mmc driver still refuse its work. 🙂
PS: VoCore: SPI & MicroSD 6 is done yesterday actually. Just too busy to publish it.

Anyway, R4 R5 is removed from the dock.

This is the result.

spidev_test is in linux source, at /linux-3.10.49/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c
And add this code to VOCORE.dts:spi@b00 to enable spidev driver.(replace that mmc-slot@1 if it exists)

spidev@1 {
    compatible = "linux,spidev";
    reg = <1>;
    spi-max-frequency = <1000000>;
};

spidev_test is simple, just send the SD boot code through the SPI to the microSD card.
I did not check whether or not the reply is correct yet 🙂 Have some food first, I guess there is no big issue.

The factory contacted me today, the first 200pcs(beta, same as release one) will be done about Aug.12 and I need at least one day to test the new firmware, so there is only three days left to SPI CS1 driver, or we have to go plan B, leave that part alone for mass production then use update firmware to fix that.

Just did more test and check today.
There are some missing parts(it should not in openwrt code either)

SPI RESET REGISTER(address: 0x10000034)

SPI CS1 MODE REGISTER(address: 0x10000060)

SPI CS1 WATCHDOG RESET NOTE

This note is not that important, but this remind me, we have some SPI pin be pulled to GND in VoCore for the bootstrap!!!

They are SPI_CLK, SPI_MOSI. 🙂

There are push to GND…

And compare my dock circuit, they are pull to VCC…

Ye, HERE IT IS, my dock is not compatible with that VoCore.

That might the possible reason why the TF card do not reply me. The circuit is like this now…That 20K ohm resistor is planed to pull SPI_MOSI to VCC but now weaken the signal, due to that 4.7k ohm push it to GND… 0.8V happens to at the edge of VIL(Input LOW Voltage) of microSD card.

There is no big issue for dock, this part is able to public now 🙂
R1, R2 is 300ohm, rest are all 20Kohm.(R4, R5 NC)

VoCore.dock.sch
VoCore.dock.pcb

I can not make SPI_CS1 work from register, also find the following small line from datasheet(page 87):

So does this mean CS should be only controlled by software but not that SPI_ENABLE register? SPI_ENABLE is just a switch? But how CS0 be controlled? :'( Ahhhh, this kills me, maybe only ralink developer knows how to use it…

I use spi_cs1 as GPIO(thanks to Noltari’s patch) and control it in spi-rt2880.c that driver. Finally, the spi cs1 works. 🙂 this is my spi-rt2880.c.

I read from oscilloscope there is some data send from MOSI to that TF card but TF card just no reply…

🙂 So many mess things, delayed the SPI & MicroSD process.

I have tried many many ways recently, finally get some results, still need more check/read/fix etc…

First, I read all the code about SPI and MMC. Also the RT5350F datasheet, SPI part.
Then, I tried to modify that spi-rt2880.c to support SPI1. Thanks for that patch I mentioned in “VoCore: SPI & MicroSD 3” from John, that helps a lot. But no luck, that patch can not work.

I just think that might be register error, so I connected MISO/MOSI/CS0/CS1 to oscilloscope, and tried every compose of the control/config register.

After many many fails, I got a result, whatever I changed the register, the SPI_CS1 was keeping low. That is abnormal. So when I try to use mmc, I just get many “TX error = -145”, “RX error = -145″…
PS: some other interesting result:
1. I find TXFALLEDGE & RXFALLEDGE register can not be used same time during my test , from my understanding, that is used to control CPHA, should be used same time…weird, need more test.
2. Do not use uboot update the firmware if MicroSD is in the slot. That will cause CRC error once update done and you reboot it.

Then I try to use SPI_CS1 as GPIO, to check if that pin is able to change by code.
When I call “echo 27 > export”, just get such error “This device does not exist”.
I was thinking that must be taken by SPI driver, so just another try “echo 3 > export”(GPIO3 is one in using SPI pin), get a totally different result, system told me it is busy.

That should be driver problem now, and not spi-rt2880 driver problem, when I am reading/fixing the pinmux code. This topic(http://vonger.cn/?topic=rfc-openwrt-support) helps me. (My old plan is to change pinmux code, which is /linux/arch/mips/ralink/rt305x.c and add a new group spics1 to it)

And I find an issue in that rt5350.dtsi. My fix is here, rt5350.dtsi, VOCORE.dts
gpio0 is 24 pins but in datasheet that control should only able to control 22 pins. Even we can export 24 gpio from that control but GPIO#22, GPIO#23 can not be use at all.
gpio1 offset is @638, but in datasheet, no such control at all, it should be @660.

Now the GPIO is working.
RX = -145 and TX = -145 disappeared.

But I still get such error every 0.5 seconds. (I guess the driver is trying to detect that SD card, due to we do not have hardware card detect irq)

setup: request speed is too low 400000.
can't not change chip-polarity

That is due to RT5350 min spi speed is 120MHz / 128 = about 1MHz, 400KHz is too low.
And after read the mmc code, that 400KHz is used to compatible the detect process with the old low speed SD card, so it is not that important. Just dirty fix spi-rt2880.c remove that error, and if we find the request spi speed is lower than 1MHz, focus to set it to 1MHz. 🙂 Then the kernel log is quiet.

Finally, another mmc kernel is keeping show itself every 5~30 seconds.

[  353.260000] mmc0: error -22 whilst initialising SDIO card
[  353.270000] mmc0: host doesn't support card's voltages
[  353.280000] mmc0: error -22 whilst initialising SD card
[  353.300000] mmc0: host doesn't support card's voltages
[  353.310000] mmc0: error -22 whilst initialising MMC card

This is easy to remove. VoCore do not support modify SD voltage ranges, so remove the line in VOCORE.dts

voltage-ranges<3300 3300>;

When boot up, there is a warning for that, but no such noise kernel log anymore. 😀

[   15.110000] mmc_spi spi32766.1: OF: voltage-ranges unspecified
[   15.120000] mmc_spi spi32766.1: ASSUMING 3.2-3.4 V slot power
[   15.180000] mmc_spi spi32766.1: SD/MMC host mmc0, no DMA, no WP, no poweroff

From the system log, spi-mmc should work(if my dirty fix works)

[    0.000000] Linux version 3.10.36 (vonger@vongers-mbp.lan) (gcc version 4.8.3 (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r41181) ) #33 Thu Jul 31 16:15:45 CST 2014
[    0.000000] SoC Type: Ralink RT5350 id:1 rev:3
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU revision is: 0001964c (MIPS 24KEc)
[    0.000000] MIPS: machine is VoCore
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 32kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,57600 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00019e38
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00019e38
[    0.000000] Memory: 29352k/32768k available (2132k kernel code, 3416k reserved, 545k data, 200k init, 0k highmem)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:256
[    0.000000] CPU Clock: 360MHz
[    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 239.61 BogoMIPS (lpj=1198080)
[    0.070000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.070000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[    0.080000] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.140000] bio: create slab  at 0
[    0.150000] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 22 gpios
[    0.160000] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 22 irq handlers
[    0.170000] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 6 gpios
[    0.180000] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 6 irq handlers
[    0.190000] Switching to clocksource MIPS
[    0.200000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.210000] TCP established hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.230000] TCP bind hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[    0.240000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 512 bind 512)
[    0.250000] TCP: reno registered
[    0.260000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.270000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.280000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.290000] rt-timer 10000100.timer: maximum frequncy is 7324Hz
[    0.340000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    0.360000] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.380000] msgmni has been set to 57
[    0.390000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.390000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.420000] gpio-export gpio-export.4: 19 gpio(s) exported
[    0.430000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    0.450000] 10000c00.uartlite: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x10000c00 (irq = 20) is a 16550A
[    0.470000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.470000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.500000] m25p80 spi32766.0: unique id: 21543693050863d1
[    0.510000] m25p80 spi32766.0: w25q64 (8192 Kbytes)
[    0.520000] 4 ofpart partitions found on MTD device spi32766.0
[    0.530000] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "spi32766.0":
[    0.540000] 0x000000000000-0x000000030000 : "uboot"
[    0.550000] 0x000000030000-0x000000040000 : "uboot-env"
[    0.570000] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "factory"
[    0.580000] 0x000000050000-0x000000800000 : "firmware"
[    0.600000] 0x00000013fc33-0x000000800000 : "rootfs"
[    0.610000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[    0.640000] mtd: device 4 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.650000] mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=0x370000, len=0x490000
[    0.660000] 0x000000370000-0x000000800000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.690000] eth0: done loading
[    0.700000] rt3xxx-usbphy ubsphy.3: loaded
[    0.710000] rt2880_wdt 10000120.watchdog: Initialized
[    0.720000] TCP: cubic registered
[    0.730000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    0.740000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    0.760000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:4.
[    0.780000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 200K (8029e000 - 802d0000)
procd: Console is alive
procd: - watchdog -
[    7.190000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    7.200000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    7.210000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    7.240000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    7.260000] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    7.280000] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[    7.490000] rt3xxx-usbphy ubsphy.3: remote usb device wakeup disabled
[    7.500000] rt3xxx-usbphy ubsphy.3: UTMI 16bit 30MHz
[    7.510000] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller
[    7.520000] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    7.540000] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: irq 26, io mem 0x101c0000
[    7.570000] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    7.580000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    7.590000] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
procd: - preinit -
[    8.830000] rt305x-esw 10110000.esw: link changed 0x00
Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
jffs2 is not ready - marker found
procd: - early -
procd: - watchdog -
procd: - ubus -
procd: - init -
Please press Enter to activate this console.
[   14.620000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   14.650000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (461 buckets, 1844 max)
[   14.680000] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   14.710000] Loading modules backported from Linux version master-2014-05-22-0-gf2032ea
[   14.730000] Backport generated by backports.git backports-20140320-37-g5c33da0
[   14.750000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   14.830000] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[   14.880000] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[   14.890000] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[   14.900000] cfg80211:  DFS Master region: unset
[   14.910000] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[   14.930000] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.950000] cfg80211:   (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.960000] cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.980000] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   15.000000] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   15.010000] cfg80211:   (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A)
[   15.110000] mmc_spi spi32766.1: OF: voltage-ranges unspecified
[   15.120000] mmc_spi spi32766.1: ASSUMING 3.2-3.4 V slot power
[   15.180000] mmc_spi spi32766.1: SD/MMC host mmc0, no DMA, no WP, no poweroff
[   15.210000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[   15.230000] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[   15.290000] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 5350, rev 0500 detected
[   15.300000] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 5350 detected
[   27.060000] jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): End of filesystem marker found at 0x0
[   27.090000] jffs2_build_filesystem(): unlocking the mtd device... done.
[   27.100000] jffs2_build_filesystem(): erasing all blocks after the end marker... [   30.050000] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[   30.060000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[   30.090000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[   30.100000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[   32.100000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state

Will do test tomorrow 😀
Some necessary files: spi-rt2880.c (some code is from John’s patch)