RPF Raspberry Pi Model A

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Single Board Computer
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt Status Unknown
OpenWrt Supported
Tomato any flavor Status Unknown
Gargoyle Status Unknown
Platform
BrandModelRev RPF Raspberry Pi Model A
Type single-board computer
CPU1 checkY Broadcom BCM2835
CPU1 Type ARM 1176JZF-S
CPU1 Speed 700 MHz
Flash1 Chip Brand? Model?
Flash1 Size 0 MiB0 B <br />0 Kib <br />0 KiB <br />0 Mib <br />0 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size 256 MiB268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip Brand? Model?
Expansion IF types SD Card, USB 2.0
USB ports 1
SD/MMC Slots 1
USB Hub Compatible Untested
Power 5 VDC, 0.5 A
Connector type USB Female (Micro-B)
Serial Port (UART) yes, 3.3V TTL, (115200 8N1)

Flags:
HDMI out, audio out (3.5mm)

Other
3rd Party Firmware Support OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
Availability End of Life
(Est.) release date 04 February 2013
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD): $25

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

For a list of all currently documented RPF devices with specifications, see RPF.

Overview

Earlier production run Raspberry Pi Model Bs (pre mid-October?) have only 256MB of RAM. All subsequent Model Bs have 512MB of RAM.

Model A Pis omit the SMSC LAN9512 - they have a single USB 2.0 port and no Ethernet capability.

Links of Interest

elinux.org's Raspberry Pi subsection

Board revision table w/ pictures

Raspberry Pi on Wikipedia

Full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core (used in the BCM2835) as well as a complete source release of the graphics stack used by the BCM21553 cellphone SoC (which also has a VideoCore IV core) has been released

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki
OpenWrt Target: bcm27xx
OpenWrt Subtarget: bcm2708
OpenWrt Package architecture: arm_arm1176jzf-s_vfp
Support started version: 14.07
Current supported version: 24.10.2

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