Re: rpi serial port

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:52:54PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks - /dev/plcom0 was clearly too obvious for me(!)

Cheers,

Patrick