airport device Notes - ipatch/theairportwiki GitHub Wiki

newlib - an alternative runtime library to the GNU libc tailored for embedded systems.

UART - operates at the following settings 115200 8N1

The AirPort Firmware is downloaded to the system in the below location

/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Apple/AirPort/Firmware/

⚠️ The firmware file may no longer be stored at the above location using a recent version of AirPort Utility

Airport Utility chooses a random port upon establishing a connection to an AirPort device.

The above mentioned app can be found in below location.

/System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app

• CPU - Marvell Kirkwood 88F6281 88F6-B1A2
  • Specs
    • 256KB L2 cache which operates at 400MHz
    • speed - 1.2GHz

To persist a file on the Airport Express after reboots store in /mnt/Flash
the difference between mips and mipsel is that mipsel is for little endian processors

• CPU - 88F5 - BF02

It is based on the Marvell Feroceon CPU core, which is compliant with the ARMv5TE

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