Talk:RPi Low-level peripherals

Save old header pinout table

Header Pinout:

Donster2k: "Kernel boot messages go to the UART at 115200bps." - This should be configurable as a kernel parameter. It is the bootloader that will always output to the uart on the header, correct?

Donster2k: What will be the power-on states of the GPIO pins?

Donster2k: USB2 spec states that the max current draw from a port (either powered hub or PC's usb) is 500mA. Does this mean that the revB module will need to be powered via a usb charger?

Donster2k: Most of the reference links to the forum are broken. Probably happened when they moved the forum.

naicheben: The color legend is fine for the table "Header Pinout" but it does not correspond to the GPIOs.gif as stated below the GIF. Shouldn't we better use same color "coding"?

Russell: I was just reading the datasheet "BCM2835 ARM Peripherals" and found that section 1.3 requires memory barrier operations to be used when accessing peripherals. This says to me that use user space access to the GPIO or any other peripheral is somewhat dangerous/error prone. Unless the kernel stopped from using any other peripheral, these registers would have to be accessed atomically, with barrier instructions, from a kernel driver.

What is this "1k8" referenced several times throughout the page? Do we mean to say "1kΩ"? If so, any objection to changing all those eights to ohms? Or if for some reason we're not comfortable using the ohm (omega) symbol, even just "1k" would be clearer to me than "1k8". Jstrout 13:43, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't mean 1 kOhm. It is a standard syntax meaning 1.8 kOhm. It is written that way because when writing values, especially if writing very small, a decimal point could easily be rubbed off or missed, whereas a k is much clearer. If it is confusing, I don't think anyone would object to writing 1k8 Ohms, though the context normally makes it clear. --Polymerheart 21:14, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Answers from Grumpy Mike From Donster2k: What will be the power-on states of the GPIO pins? ..... They are all inputs except GPIO 14 & 15 which are serial input / output and can be used to log in. From Jstrout What is this "1k8" ...... it is short for one point eight K ohms. It is so you can't accidentally miss the decimal point.

The pin out on this page is very bad, it should referee to all the pins as GPIO numbers. Most of the alternative pin functions are only one possible out of 6 and they initialise as inputs anyway.