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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:53:43 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Choose between Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and ROCKPro64
Message-ID:  <20191113075343.GP43404@cicely7.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20191112225251.GB4552@funkthat.com>
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 02:52:51PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote this message on Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 23:16 +0100:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 08:09:38AM -0700, Klaus Küchemann via freebsd-arm wrote:
> > > <<The u-boot has to go into the SPI-Flash or on the card? >>
> > > 
> > > onto the uSD :
> > > https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/u-boot-rockpro64/
> > > Regards 
> > > Klaus
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Do you know the bps rate used by u-boot and later components?
> > I do see some output at the usual 115200 bps, but it is messed up.
> > Also tried other typical bps rates, including 1.5Mbps as mentioned
> > on the RockPro Wiki, but none worked.
> > I wouldn't rule out that it is the USB uart failing at 1.5M though,
> > but I've tried a PL2303, CP2102 (which refused 1.5Mbps) and
> > a CH340.
> > Unfortunately I don't have an FTDI based TTL one at hands.
> > It also fails with reading the uartt output when booting an Armbian
> > image, which as such is booting fine according to the HDMI output.
> 
> It's 1.5Mbps, aka 1500000.  I'm using the CH340G that they sell:
> https://store.pine64.org/?product=padi-serial-console
> 
> And it works, but it will occasionally drop characters.

Sigh - IMO 1.5M is an insane idea for that and so needless.

> None of my other serial adapters could do the speed necessary.

I just retried with the CH340 - again no success, but noticed that the
chip on my adapter is unlabeled.
So probably it isn't a genuine.
I should have some others, but not at home, and I also have some
loose CH340G chips.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.



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