Splitting up the Raspberry Pi Hardware category

[aallan]

We really need to look into splitting up the information in the Raspberry Pi Hardware category into slightly more granular top-level categories. The page currently spans several topics.

• GPIO and the 40-pin Header (computers/os/using-gpio.adoc)
  • Voltages
  • Outputs
  • Inputs
  • Other functions
  • GPIO pinout
  • Permissions
  • GPIO in Python
• Schematics and Mechanical Drawings (computers/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-schematics.adoc)
  • Raspberry Pi 5
  • Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
  • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
  • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
  • Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
  • Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+
  • Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
  • Raspberry Pi 1 Model A+
  • Raspberry Pi Zero
  • Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
• Product compliance and safety (computers/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-compliance.adoc)
  • Flammability rating
  • Raspberry Pi Compliance Support
  • Powered by Raspberry Pi
  • Approved Design Partners
• Frequency management and thermal control (computers/raspberry-pi/frequency-management.adoc)
  • Using DVFS
  • Measuring temperatures
  • Adding heatsinks
  • Fan cases
• Raspberry Pi boot EEPROM (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-eeprom-rpi4.adoc)
  • Boot diagnostics
  • Update the bootloader
  • Updating the EEPROM Configuration
  • Automatic updates
  • Bootloader release status
• Boot Diagnostics on the Raspberry Pi 4 (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-diagnostics-rpi4.adoc)
• Raspberry Pi boot modes (computers/raspberry-pi/bootmodes.adoc)
  • Special bootcode.bin-only boot mode
  • bootcode.bin UART Enable
• Boot sequence (computers/raspberry-pi/bootflow-legacy.adoc)
• Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 boot flow (computers/raspberry-pi/bootflow-2711.adoc)
  • First stage bootloader
  • Second stage bootloader
  • Bootloader updates
  • Fail-safe OS updates (tryboot)
  • tryboot_a_b mode
• Raspberry Pi bootloader configuration (computers/raspberry-pi/eeprom-bootloader.adoc)
  • Editing the configuration
  • Configuration properties
  • Configuration Properties in config.txt
  • Secure Boot configuration properties in config.txt
• USB Boot Modes (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-usb.adoc)
  • USB device boot mode
  • USB host boot mode
• USB mass storage boot (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-msd.adoc)
  • Raspberry Pi 4B and Raspberry Pi 400
  • Compute Module 4
  • Raspberry Pi 3B+
  • Raspberry Pi 2B, 3A+, 3B, CM3, CM3+, Zero 2 W
  • Booting from USB mass storage
  • Known issues
  • Special bootcode.bin-only boot mode
  • Hardware compatibility
  • Multiple bootable drives
• Network booting (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-net.adoc)
  • Debugging network boot mode
  • Known problems
• GPIO boot mode (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-gpio.adoc)
  • Pin assignments
  • Boot flow
• NVMe SSD Boot (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-nvme.adoc)
  • Required hardware
  • Required software
  • Troubleshooting
• HTTP Boot (computers/raspberry-pi/boot-http.adoc)
  • Requirements
  • Keys
  • Secure boot
• Parallel Display Interface (computers/raspberry-pi/display-parallel-interface.adoc)
  • GPIO pins
  • Disable other GPIO peripherals
  • Configure a display
• General Purpose I/O (GPIO) (computers/raspberry-pi/gpio-on-raspberry-pi.adoc)
  • GPIO pads
  • Interrupts
  • Alternative functions
  • Voltage specifications
• GPIO pads control (computers/raspberry-pi/gpio-pad-controls.adoc))))
• Industrial use of the Raspberry Pi (computers/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-industrial.adoc)
  • One-time programmable settings
  • Write and read customer OTP values
  • Locking OTP on non-BCM2712 devices
  • Locking OTP on BCM2712 devices
  • Making customer OTP bits unreadable on non-BCM2712 devices
  • Customer MAC addresses on BCM2712 devices
  • Device-specific private key
• OTP register and bit definitions (computers/raspberry-pi/otp-bits.adoc)
  • OTP registers on non-BCM2712 devices
  • OTP Registers on BCM2712 devices
• Raspberry Pi connector for PCIe (computers/raspberry-pi/pcie.adoc)
  • Enable PCIe
  • Boot from PCIe
  • PCIe Gen 3.0
• Power button (computers/raspberry-pi/power-button.adoc)
  • Restart
  • Hard shutdown
  • Add your own power button
• Power Supply (computers/raspberry-pi/power-supplies.adoc)
  • Recommended power supplies
  • Power over Ethernet (PoE) connector
  • Typical power requirements
  • Power supply warnings
  • Power supplies and Raspberry Pi OS
  • Back-powering
• Real Time Clock (RTC) (computers/raspberry-pi/rtc.adoc)
  • Add a backup battery
  • Enable battery charging
  • Disable battery charging
• Serial peripheral interface (SPI) (computers/raspberry-pi/spi-bus-on-raspberry-pi.adoc)
  • SPI hardware
  • SPI software
  • Troubleshooting
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) (computers/raspberry-pi/usb-bus-on-raspberry-pi.adoc)
  • Maximum power output
  • Raspberry Pi 5
  • Raspberry Pi 4
  • Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2 and 3
  • Known USB issues
• Raspberry Pi revision codes (computers/raspberry-pi/revision-codes.adoc)
  • Old-style revision codes
  • New-style revision codes
  • New-style revision codes in use
  • Using revision codes for board identification
  • Best practices for revision code usage

[rohan-kapse]

hey @aallan could u guide me how can i help, its first time contributing ;)

[aallan]

hey @aallan could u guide me how can i help, its first time contributing ;)

Unfortunately, I'm afraid this is not really a first-time contributor sort of issue. I'm going to have to try and figure out how to split the category into sub-topics that are narrative adjacent, which is why I self-assigned.

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[aallan]

Too fast github-actions bot, too fast!

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Not yet Gitbot. Not yet.

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