[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 3 with symlink

[Ubaldo Porcheddu]

Hi Peter,

Il 2016-04-25 13:07 Peter Korsgaard ha scritto:
>>>>>> "Ubaldo" == Ubaldo Porcheddu <ubaldo at eja.it> writes:
> 
>  > Signed-off-by: Ubaldo Porcheddu <ubaldo at eja.it>
> 
> Committed after expanding the commit message, thanks.
> 
> I've also committed a change to sync the kernel version with what is
> used for rpi1/2 (E.G. the rpi-4.4.y branch). Care to verify that
> everything works correctly after that?

I just tested the new kernel version but it doesn't give me the login 
prompt, the kernel seems to be booting fine as it can recognize my 
keyboard but it doesn't accept any input.


> What about the serial console? The rpi3 afaik uses ttyS0 instead of
> ttyAMA0 for the (default) serial console. Do we need to adjust
> cmdline.txt for the rpi?
> 
> I see notes about newer rpi-firmware versions fixing up ttyAMA0 -> 
> ttyS0
> when running on a rpi3, so perhaps it isn't needed?
> 
> https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/22

I don't have a serial console cable to test with at the moment, but I 
can see from the kernel log on screen a message like:

console [ttyS0] enabled