Re: UART misbehaves under Linkstation/KuroBoxHG

Oncaphillis
2007-08-08T22:54:44Z

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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