[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] raspberrypi3: fix serial console (load pi3-miniuart-bt overlay)
Peter Seiderer
ps.report at gmx.net
Tue May 3 19:02:00 UTC 2016
Hello Martin,
On Tue, 3 May 2016 11:23:50 +0100, Martin Bark <martin at barkynet.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> On 3 May 2016 at 07:18, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Oscar" == Oscar Gomez Fuente <oscargomezf at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi Peter Seiderer,
> > > What's the difference between enabling pi3-miniuart-bt instead of
> > > pi3-disable-bt?
> >
> > > With pi3-disable-bt enables it works fine the serial console on (14 [TxD] &
> > > 15 [RxD] pins).
> >
> > From the names I would guess it is the difference between completely
> > disabling access to the bluetooth module and providing access to it
> > though the secondary (mini) uart.
> >
> > The miniuart has some limitations, but I guess basic bluetooth stuff
> > should work with it.
>
> I've got a bit lost in the rpi3 serial console issues but as i
> understand the current situation all you need to do is set
> enable_uart=1 in config.txt. See
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/553#issuecomment-199486644.
> I've not tested this.
>
> I think you also need to change cmdline.txt to use console=serial0 as
> the pi3-miniuart-bt will replace it with the correct serial device
> (ttyAMA0 or ttyS0) depending if it's enabled or not. See the comments
> in https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-4.1.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/pi3-miniuart-bt-overlay.dts.
>
This works too, not sure whats the better solution, explicit via device tree overlay
or some firmware magic....
- pi3-miniuart-bt 'dmesg | grep tty':
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: 8250.nr_uarts=1 dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=1920 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=1200 bcm2709.boardrev=0xa02082 bcm2709.serial=0xa60340 smsc95xx.macaddr=B8:27:EB:A6:03:40 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 bcm2709.uart_clock=48000000 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait console=tty1 console=ttyAMA0,115200
[ 0.001320] console [tty1] enabled
[ 0.318181] 3f215040.uart: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x3f215040 (irq = 59, base_baud = 50000000) is a 16550
[ 2.008162] 3f201000.uart: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 87, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
[ 3.296233] console [ttyAMA0] enabled
- enable-uart=1, serial0 dmesg | grep tty':
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: 8250.nr_uarts=1 dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=1920 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=1200 bcm2709.boardrev=0xa02082 bcm2709.serial=0xa60340 smsc95xx.macaddr=B8:27:EB:A6:03:40 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 bcm2709.uart_clock=48000000 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200
[ 0.001318] console [tty1] enabled
[ 0.318270] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.318389] 3f215040.uart: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x3f215040 (irq = 59, base_baud = 31250000) is a 16550
[ 1.042714] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 3.020277] 3f201000.uart: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 87, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
Regards,
Peter
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
> >
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> > Venlig hilsen,
> > Peter Korsgaard
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