[Arm-netbook] Consideration: Uboot Modification - Add USB OTG console

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 09:34:53 GMT 2011


Ken Phillis Jr wrote:
> This idea has probably been discussed elsewhere, but increasingly
> computers do not have serial ports, and often time the vendor does not
> include a jtag header or tty on the board. However, as a twist, I do
> know that increasingly vendors are including the USB OTG on their
> devices, and this is where creating open source tools for handling the
> USB OTG in the boot loader will useful, because it'll allow future
> devices to be able to be freed without having as much hassle.

AFAIK, uboot already supports a console over USB, at least on some
SOCs...

http://elinux.org/U-boot_musb_gadget_support



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