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1Banana Pi/Pro    {#bananapi}
2============
3
4The Banana Pi/Pro is a clone of the well known Raspberry Pi. It has advantages
5compared to the 'old' Raspberry Pi A/B/A+/B+ devices as it is based on the
6Allwinner A20 Dual Core Cortex-A7. It also has 1G Ethernet compared to 100M
7Ethernet on the Raspberry.
8
9There is a lot of effort on Mainline Kernel to fully support the Allwinner
10Chips, for example Fedora 22 Arm will come with support for BananaPi/Pro which
11means that you will be able to have HDMI Output and a number of periperal
12modules work out of the box.
13
14Pin-wise the Banana Pi matches the Raspberry Pi, the Banana Pro has a connector
15similar to the Raspberry Pi A+/B+
16
17Revision Support
18----------------
19Banana Pi
20Banana Pro
21
22Interface notes
23---------------
24
25**PWM** Whilst the Banana Pi is meant to have 1 PWM channel this is currently
26not supported.
27
28**SPI** works fine when used with old 3.4 Kernels provided by Lemaker, on
29Mainline Kernel SPI does currently not work
30
31**COM** I have created devicetree patches so that Mainline Kernel supports all
32COM-Interfaces, this is not yet visible in Kernel
33
34Mainline Kernel requires the use of Device-Trees, mraa tries it's best to guess
35which gpio/serial/i2c/spi is connected where but there is currently no support
36to manipulate the Device-Tree settings from within mraa. If a device does not
37work as expected then please check syslog, mraa usually complains with a
38meaningful message when it is unable to initialize the device.
39
40Pin Mapping
41-----------
42
43This pin mapping refers to the Banana Pi but gives an idea
44as to what the values are from mraa. Note that there is an emum to use wiringPi
45style numbers.
46
47| MRAA Number | Physical Pin | Function  |
48|-------------|--------------|-----------|
49| 1           | P1-01        | 3V3 VCC   |
50| 2           | P1-02        | 5V VCC    |
51| 3           | P1-03        | I2C SDA   |
52| 4           | P1-04        | 5V VCC    |
53| 5           | P1-05        | I2C SCL   |
54| 6           | P1-06        | GND       |
55| 7           | P1-07        | GPIO(PI03)|
56| 8           | P1-08        | UART4 TX  |
57| 9           | P1-09        | GND       |
58| 10          | P1-10        | UART4 RX  |
59| 11          | P1-11        | GPIO(PI19)|
60| 12          | P1-12        | GPIO(PH02)|
61| 13          | P1-13        | GPIO(PI18)|
62| 14          | P1-14        | GND       |
63| 15          | P1-15        | GPIO(PI17)|
64| 16          | P1-16        | GPIO(PH20)|
65| 17          | P1-17        | 3V3 VCC   |
66| 18          | P1-18        | GPIO(PH21)|
67| 19          | P1-19        | SPI MOSI  |
68| 20          | P1-20        | GND       |
69| 21          | P1-21        | SPI MISO  |
70| 22          | P1-22        | GPIO(PI16)|
71| 23          | P1-23        | SPI SCL   |
72| 24          | P1-24        | SPI CS0   |
73| 25          | P1-25        | GND       |
74| 26          | P1-26        | SPI CS1   |
75
76There is also a second 8-pin connector on the Banana Pi, the pins are as follows:
77
78| 27          | P1-19        | 5V VCC    |
79| 28          | P1-20        | 3V3 VCC   |
80| 29          | P1-21        | GPIO(PH5) |
81| 30          | P1-22        | GPIO(PI22)|
82| 31          | P1-23        | GPIO(PH03)|
83| 32          | P1-24        | GPIO(PI20)|
84| 33          | P1-25        | GND       |
85| 34          | P1-26        | GND       |
86