Using COM Port as console in building RTEMS for SMDK2410

[Joel Sherrill]

On 05/23/2012 02:49 AM, SAeeD wrote:
> Hello every one,
>
> I am building RTEMS for SMDK2410 these days and I want to test the 
> simple "hello" application, available in "testsuites" folder of RTEMS.
> But the problem is that I want to use the board's COM port as the 
> console, so that output of those printf lines in "hello" application 
> goes through COM port and I see the output on my laptop's screen.
> I configured RTEMS as follows:
> ../configure --enable-rtems-debug USE_COM1_AS_CONSOLE=1 
> BSP_PRESS_KEY_FOR_RESET=0 --target=arm-rtems4.10 
> --enable-rtemsbsp=smdk2410 --enable-tests=samples 
> --prefix=/home/rtems/rtems-4.10-src/rtems-4.10.2/mini2440/build
>
USE_COM1_AS_CONSOLE=1 is pc386 specific and has no impact on this BSP.

It looks like the console always is the first (only?) UART on this.

> Then I transferred "hello.exe" image to board and connected the 
> board's COM port to my laptop's COM port and started a terminal for 
> serial connection with baud rate:115200, data: 8 bits, 1 stop bit, no 
> parity and no flow control.
>
> I powered on the board but there was nothing received from the serial 
> port!
> I guess USE_COM1_AS_CONSOLE=1 is not enough to configure the OS to 
> send console output to COM port. But I am not sure.
>
> Does any one have any idea or experience about this?
>
No personal experience here but looking at the code, I wonder if the 
baud rate
clock is the same on your board as on the board it was developed for.

     /* value is calculated so : (int)(PCLK/16./baudrate) -1 */
     reg = get_PCLK() / (16 * 115200) - 1;



> * Please notice that although I build RTEMS for SMDK2410, my board is 
> Mini2440.
>
If there is a boot monitor on this, you can always disable initializing
the UART and use the same baud rate it used.
> Thanks in advance
> SAeeD


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