Gateworks Model, Serial Number, and Software Versions

Gateworks Serial Number

Gateworks uses a 6digit serial number to identify products. There are several ways you can determine the serial number for a given product:

• 6 digit bar-code on product
• EEPROM info (For All board products)

When Trying to Return a Board to Gateworks

If you're requesting to return a board to Gateworks, *do not open the anti-static bag*. We will be unable to accept your return if the bag has been opened due to ESD exposure. The serial number can be read clearly through the anti-static bag.

Physical Bar-Code

The serial number should be placed on a small white barcode sticker placed on the PCB somewhere, front or back, etc. Typically it is a 6 digit number such as 999999.

Please see picture below for example:

EEPROM: serial number from Bootloader output

The various Gateworks boot firmware outputs the board serial number within the few lines that come out of the serial console when the board is powered on. For example, the Ventana bootloader may look like:

U-Boot 2013.04-rc1-00022-g0d7f692-dirty (Apr 09 2013 - 16:38:25)
CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
Reset cause: POR
Gateworks Corporation Copyright 2013
Model Number: GW5400-A
Manufacturer Date: 04-29-2013
Serial #: 504743

EEPROM: serial number from Linux

From Linux you can determine the serial number from the device-tree:

echo $(cat /proc/device-tree/serial-number)

EEPROM: MFG Date from Linux

From Linux you can determine the MFG date by looking at certain fields of the EEPROM:

b0=$(i2cget -f -y 0 0x51 0x20 | cut -c3-)
b1=$(i2cget -f -y 0 0x51 0x21 | cut -c3-)
b2=$(i2cget -f -y 0 0x51 0x22 | cut -c3-)
b3=$(i2cget -f -y 0 0x51 0x23 | cut -c3-)
printf "%02x-%02x-%02x%02x\n" 0x$b0 0x$b1 0x$b2 0x$b3

This will display in the format Month-Day-Year.

Model Number

The model number is not typically printed on the PCB.

The model number can be seen at startup from the console of the board as one of the first few lines:

• Ventana and Newport bootloader:

  U-Boot SPL 2014.04-00124-gb795e67 (May 16 2014 - 16:38:32)
  NAND : 256 MiB
  
  
  U-Boot 2014.04-00124-gb795e67 (May 16 2014 - 16:38:32)
  
  CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
  Reset cause: POR
  I2C:   ready
  DRAM:  1 GiB
  PMIC:  PFUZE100 ID=0x10
  NAND:  256 MiB
  MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0
  No panel detected: default to HDMI
  Display: HDMI (1024x768)
  In:    serial
  Out:   serial
  Err:   serial
  
  Gateworks Corporation Copyright 2014
  Model: GW5400-C
  MFGDate: 05-16-2014
  Serial:612241
  GSC:   v43 0x7d77 0x11
  RTC:   1414768661
  DIO0:  GPIO1_IO09 (gpio-9)
  DIO1:  GPIO1_IO19 (gpio-19)
  DIO2:  GPIO2_IO09 (gpio-41)
  DIO3:  GPIO2_IO10 (gpio-42)
  MSATA: disabled
  RS232: enabled
  Net:   FEC [PRIME], usb_ether
  
  

From Linux you can obtain the model number directly from the i2c EEPROM:

• Ventana and Newport (3.10+ device-tree kernel):

    BOARD="$(cat /proc/device-tree/board)"
    echo $BOARD
  

• Ventana and Newport (3.0.35 kernel):

    BOARD="$(dd if=/sys/devices/platform/imx-i2c.0/i2c-0/0-0051/eeprom bs=1 count=16 skip=48 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C | head -1 | cut -c62-67)"
    echo $BOARD
  

PCB Revision

Gateworks has revisions of the PCB boards that are the base of the computer board.

The PCB revision can be identified from the silkscreen. The revision is the last 2 digits after the dash.

For example: 02210119-01 is Revision 1 or Revision B.

• -00 = Revision A
• -01 = Revision B
• -02 = Revision C

Bootloader Version

The Bootloader Version can often be seen at startup from the console of the board as one of the first few lines...

Example Below:

U-Boot 2013.04-rc1-00022-g0d7f692 (Apr 09 2013 - 16:38:25)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
Reset cause: POR
Gateworks Corporation Copyright 2013
Model Number: GW5400-A
Manufacturer Date: 04-29-2013
Serial #: 504743
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0

• here the bootloader version can be summarized as 2013.04-rc1-00022-g0d7f692

Software Version

The Software Version can often be seen at end of the bootup process.

Gateworks grabs a snapshot of a stable release of OpenWrt and then may apply it's patches and issue their own branches as seen here: ​https://github.com/Gateworks/openwrt

Common Gateworks releases will be referenced as the 12.10 branch or the 13.06 branch, or trunk. These can be checked out of SVN here: OpenWrt/building

OpenWrt typically has a 'banner' that will distinguish which release is being used.

Example Below shows the Barrier Breaker Release at Revision r36311:

  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 -----------------------------------------------------
 BARRIER BREAKER (Bleeding Edge, r36311)
 -----------------------------------------------------
  * 1/2 oz Galliano         Pour all ingredients into
  * 4 oz cold Coffee        an irish coffee mug filled
  * 1 1/2 oz Dark Rum       with crushed ice. Stir.
  * 2 tsp. Creme de Cacao
 -----------------------------------------------------

See OpenWrt version history here: ​http://wiki.openwrt.org/about/history#timeline

Kernel Version

The kernel being used can be found through the uname -a command as seen below (3.8.6):

root@OpenWrt:/# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 3.8.6 #1 SMP Wed Jul 10 09:06:50 PDT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux

Reading GSC version

This can be found two ways:

1. Serial console output at bootup

   Gateworks Corporation Copyright 2014
   Model: GW5224-B
   MFGDate: 12-04-2015
   Serial:668494
   GSC:   v46 0xd50b WDT:disabled board temp at 31C
   
   

2. The following example will print out the GSC code revision. This example uses the Linux I2C utilities.

   i2cget -f -y 0 0x20 14		;# read GSC revision from register 14
   0x16				;# hex revision value = v22