[Arm-netbook] [EOMA68] RS232 on SoCs

[Philip Hands]

"luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
>
>> I've tried just plugging GND and RX (from the converter) in, which I'd
>> think would provide no power, and still I generally see no output from
>> the fel-loaded uboot -- that's despite the uboot then going on to boot
>> Debian from SD to the point that I can log into it over the USB-OTG's
>> network.
>
>  ah.  that would tend to suggest that the version of u-boot you've
> picked up is not outputting to the correct serial port.

Nope -- it sometimes (rarely) works.

When it's working, I also get output indicating that it's found its RAM
From the first stage thing that only loads first with fel.

> you're the only person left with an A10 CPU Card (do you have 2 -
> including the one with spiked/broken HDMI?  i think i wanted to make
> sure you had a fully-working one for debconf)

Yes, I have those two.  Most of the tests have been done with the
broken-HDMI board, as I'm not sure I've ever managed to get anything
From the other one, but then again, I wouldn't expect to have done, given
how rarely it works on the first board these days.

Cheers, Phil.
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