Udoo Neo Uboot process is not visible on the A9 serial Port

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  1. laxmi

    laxmi New Member

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  3. laxmi

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    Hi,
    I followed the above link but still no luck. I am using USB-TTL which works fine, tested by shorting TX & RX pin. On my USB-TTL I can see TX led blinking on hitting keys from my PC but no RX led blink.I have tried on HyperTerminal.
     
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    waltervl UDOOer

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    Does your Neo Boot?
     
  5. laxmi

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    yes
     
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    waltervl UDOOer

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    Did you try to switch the TX/RX wires?
    Neo UART1_TX should be connected to USB-TTL-RX and UART1_RX should be connected to USB-TTL-TX
    And also double check the protocol.
    Perhaps try it with Putty instead of Hyperterminal.

    I had no problems with connecting an USB-TTL to the UART1
     
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    TX,RX cross connection worked.Thank you !!
     
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  8. Jesse Millwood

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    Is it possible to just have u-boot on the sdcard?
    I followed the instructions at https://github.com/UDOOboard/uboot-imx for the neo (2015.04.imx branch)
    1. wiped a micro sd card and formated it to be fat32 with gparted.
    2. then unmounted it (it is in a usb to uSD adapter)
    3. used dd to write the SPL and u-boot.img files to the sd card
    4. inserted the sd card into the neo
    5. connected the uart1 tx/rx/gnd to my usb/serial dongle (tried with a prolific one and a cypress based one)
    6. opened putty in windows and connected to the COM port with 115200 baud
    7. powered the neo up

    I don't see any output, I expected to see something like http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootPowerOn where you can see the uboot prompt. I have tried swapping tx/rx just in case too and still nothing.

    I perused through the menuconfig of the uboot imx and didn't see anything really pertaining to the console.
    Is there a config somewhere I can set to just get to the uboot console with this version? I don't want to boot to any OS yet.

    Any help here would be appreciated, thanks.
     
  9. Jesse Millwood

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    Nevermind, I was in fact not on J7 but J4. everything works.
     
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