On 01/12/2013 10:47 PM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: > Jon, > > It has what it calls a serial port, which in fact goes to a USB. There are > then some drivers (Windows only) which apparently allow communicating with > it as a serial device. OK, the Beagle Board has a "real" serial port, driven via some GPIO pads and then brought out with a Max232-style chip, so it needs no special drivers once the OMAP's GPIO mux setting is made. So, this serial port works from the VERY start of the boot process, and you see the TI boot ROM ID'ing the processor rev number, the memory chips and so on. This allows you to see the messages from bad SD card formats, and all sorts of similar incompatible boot params and other problems that prevent Linux from booting.
I only know the Beagle Board, so I can't help much beyond that. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
