Re: UART misbehaves under Linkstation/KuroBoxHG

[Oncaphillis <oncaphillis@snafu.de>]

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Oncaphillis wrote:
>>   I hope I found the the misconfigured part. I didn't look
>>   at /etc/inittab. It opens a getty on /dev/ttyS0. That
>>   might do the trick. Have to recompile my kernel right now with
>>   standard config to check this out.
> 
> Hm, for that you don't have to recompile the kernel... unless you modified 
> it before, of course. Just change your inittab and reboot.

   Oh I know... I just played around with the kernel config
   to solve the problem and ended up with a kernel that didn't
   boot at all..

> 
>>   Well ... it doesn't seem to need the daemons but at least
>>   the kuro_boot  script or something similar has to be executed
>>   once sending the right init strings to the AVR or your system
>>   reboots after a few minutes at least on my box.
> 
> No, shouldn't be needed either. You should get a string in dmesg like 
> "linkstation: disarming the AVR watchdog:", and the watchdog should be 
> off. Just take the original .dts, unmodified kernel sources and close 
> enough to original (arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig) .config 
> and it should work.
> 

  Thanks again...


> Thanks
> Guennadi
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> Guennadi Liakhovetski
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