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From: Jens Scharsig <esw@bus-elektronik.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:47:19 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] Is FT232R chip supported in U-Boot?
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Am 2011-11-10 14:15, schrieb Mahavir Prasad:
> Hello All,
> 
> We have our new board and I am porting U-Boot on it. I am first trying to
> get U-Boot's console. FT232R is populated on the board and I need to use it
> for the showing the console.
> 

> I looked into u-boot/drivers/serial folder but could not find any reference
> to FT232R.
> 
> Could you please let me know whether FT232R is already supported in U-Boot?
> 

The U-Boot console need a real uart device, the FT232 is an USB to UART converter.
The serial console needs to initialize long before the usb stack is available.

Regards,

Jens