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Since Fedora 9, the init process is managed by upstart. To get a serial console with a login prompt the old method doesn’t work anymore. The old method is to add the following line into /etc/inittab: s0:3:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100 This spawns a agetty for the ttyS0 in runlevel 3. The new method is Continue reading →

Time to play with the next part of the ML505 board. The soldered USB chip is provided by Cypress and can be configured as a host and peripheral device. It contains a 16-Bit Risc Core, two serial interface engines (4 USB Ports) and a lot of other useful things (UART, SPI, IDE interface). To provide Continue reading →