Using the debug UART for other purposes?

Started by hhhansen, December 04, 2014, 09:07:03 AM

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hhhansen

Is it possible to use both the UEXT and debug UART for external devices, i.e. disable the terminal on the debug UART to free it up for other things?

mbergmann

Hi,

yes, its possible.

Check out the kernel console command line parameter:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/serial-console.txt

Additionally Christians blog post describes how he changed the console from debug UART to Application UART. The post contains some helpful information:

http://www.jann.cc/2013/08/31/porting_linux_to_a_new_board.html#step-4-the-application-uart

Regards

Mike

hhhansen

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Thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply! .. I will post my results here if I find anything beyond the stuff on Christians blog :-)