On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:04:45AM +0300, Roman Yeryomin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:20:29PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > >> Roman Yeryomin wrote: > >> > >> what could be the problem? > >> > > > >> > > My 1c has the serial port on a superio chip. I recognize this > >> > > problem from other boards. I also have a 3c3 where I saw this > >> > > before I fried the 5536 ATA driver. > >> > > >> > Sorry didn't understand what you actually mean here... that I have > >> > fried my hardware? > >> > >> Sorry! No not at all! > >> > >> The serial port on alix1c is on the Winbond superio chip. The alix2 > >> and 3 boards do not have this superio chip and their serial port is > >> connected directly to the 5536 - and this is probably the reason that > >> serial doesn't work anymore. > > > > I don't understand - serial works fine for me on the 2c3. Getting serial to > > work was in fact the 'hardest' part of doing the 2c3 port based on the .1c > > code, because of the absense of the winbond superio chip. It required all of > > changing a few lines of code :) > > > > that image you gave me.. serial works with it for you, right? (I didn't check)
Yes, it does work for me. At 115200n8 of course. Note that the alix ships with tinybios set to a (much) lower speed. > also what kind of linux distribution you have? does it work with busybox also? I use voyage linux (http://linux.voyage.hk), which is basically Debian + some specifics for embedded systems. It specifically supports alix, and it really easy to install onto a CF card from your pc. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
