On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:41:12 -0400 Roberto Alejandro Espi Munoz <raespi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi ... I'm currently having some trouble with displaying characters > correctly in my terminal. I'm using a board equivalent to the > mini2440. This one has a NOR and a NAND. I connect to it over a serial > port interface. When I boot up the board in debug mode I'm able to see > clearly the messages displayed by the S3C2440A USB Downloader which is > copied in the NOR interface, I then download my barebox binary over the > USB interface and when it boots I get a lot of weird characters on > screen. The console seems to respond correctly, I issue for example the > "reset" command and it resets but I can't make out what is displayed. > I was guessing at first a serial port configuration problem on my > operating system (I use Linux), tried it over on Windows and same > effect, the first bootloader works great and barebox when starting just > mangles the characters. > > The other weird problem is than when I use a USB-Serial converter to > connect to the board's serial port everything works ! > > I'm currently using barebox 2012.09 and OpenSuse Linux 13.2 > > Any ideas ? thanks You have the problem if you use your host computer motherboard serial port (no matter, Linux or Windows), isn't it? And no problem if you use USB-Serial dongle. So it looks like host serial port problem. Could you try to connect the board to another host computer? -- Best regards, Antony Pavlov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
