Re: rpi serial port

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Patrick Welche wrote:
>Is it possible to use the RPI serial port as an ordinary non-console
>port? I just tried building a kernel without PLCONSOLE. dmesg shows
>
>plcom0 at obio0 intr 57
>plcom0: txfifo disabled
>genfb0 at obio0: switching to framebuffer console
>
>so the serial port isn't being used as a console, but which device
>corresponds to it? (e.g. ucom0 -> ttyU0) (tried tty00 on the off-chance)

The definition of the device major is in sys/arch/arm/conf/majors.arm32

device-major    plcom           char 93                 plcom

Look for something in /dev/ with a major of 93, or create one yourself.

Robert Swindells