Hi, I would like to inquire how to use the serial port using ubuntu os? I’ve looked at the rpi equivalent steps, but can’t see how it applies on the bpi
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pheonixfire
how do I use it for serial device directly?
e.g. serial gps module
the link provided doesn’t explain this
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Pheonixfire
yes, you can use serial device.
please check which serial are you connect ,and maybe you need edit code .
how?
I require you to provide more information on how to achieve this
Currently I’m not being told whether I need to do any special configuration to use the
serial line for anything other then console
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Pheonixfire
http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M2M#Hardware_interfact
you should use 8+10 (UART2, or 11+13=UART3) +gnd to establish a serial connection. in your running System you should see a /dev/ttySx device. if not i guess it needs to be enabled in DTS (kernel hardware description)
i found no kernel 4.x yet (only 3.4) which i guess has no dts support…maybe you see an ttySx, but maybe not.
i found this thread where m2m is listed for 4.14 too…as far as i see dts is available in mainline-linux: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-r16-bananapi-m2m.dts?h=v5.4-rc7 but it seems that only uart0/1 are defined where uart1 is used for bluetooth and uart0 should be debug-uart (console)…
Does it need to be released from console duty?
When I looked earlier the rpi equivalent apparently needs to be released
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Pheonixfire
I don’t know, but you can use another port…if you use ttyS0 as debug-uart,try ttyS1 for serial communication…
Binding should be in dts(i) only and cmdline (uboot). But maybe first defined is used as debug-uart