On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 13:16:55, Young, Joseph wrote:
> >> I am porting the Davinci Linux kernel to a new and similar TI device,
> >> called Jacinto2. I am at the point where the init program passed to
> >> the kernel by the bootloader is initialized. The problem that I am
> >> experiencing is that, whichever init program I pass, it can display
> >> text, but it cannot receive characters from the keyboard.
> >>
> >> I know the serial interface is ok, because I inserted prinktk's and it
> >> both issues a serial interrupt when I press any key, as well as
> >> retrieves the correct character from the UART buffer. However, the
> >> characters I type do not show up in the shell, and it doesn't seem to 
> >> react to keyboard signals.
> >>
> >> When one passes /bin/sh as the init program, it will display the '# /'
> >> of the shell prompt, but the keyboard has no effect. When I wrote a
> >> simple 'hello world' program to print text, receive text from the
> >> user, and then print another line, it will print but not receive the 
> >> keystrokes.
> >>
> >> Passing /bin/ls (which redirects to busybox) will display my file
> >> system as I expect, so I don't think that my busybox is broken.
> >>
> >> Is anyone familiar with how this is initialized when the kernel is booting?
> >> Does anyone have a clue what I could be missing so that the serial
> >> interface would record keystrokes but not pass it to the tty interface or 
> >> shell?
> >
> > Not sure about the details of Jacinto2, but on the other SoCs in the 
> > family, the UART TX and RX signals are >
> > commonly mux'd with other pins.
>
> This is correct, the UART0 TX,RX, RTS, and CTS are muxed with some GPIO pins.
>
> > Have you confirmed that all the UART signals are mux'd correctly?
>
> Yes, because the characters I type are appearing in the serial buffer on the 
> device (I am printing out the characters received with printk's) but they are 
> not having an impact on the console.
>

I would like to guess there is something wrong with your kernel
configuration. Can you start from davinci_all_defconfig and then
modify only the parts absolutely required (like enabling
ARCH_DAVINCI_JACINTO2 (??)).

Also, within TI we are using filesystem from Arago project for
testing http://arago-project.org/files/releases/.

Thanks,
Sekhar

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