[coreboot] thincan serial support

Corey Osgood corey.osgood at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 18:09:04 CET 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to do ttl to rs232 for the thincan. I am thinking of a cook
> book procedure so others can do this easily.
>
> The first ingredient is this: http://www.superdroidrobots.com/rs232.htm
>
> Anyone have a better choice? I like this as it comes with schematics
> and howto. From here I should be able
> to do a simple "howto" writeup.
>
> CS5536 doesn't have USB debug port support :-(, so this is the best
> choice. We're going to need a Kconfig
> option on v3 for enabling serial over DDC on boards using cs5536.
>
> thanks
>
> ron


Siemens C55 has an lvttl interface. Most of the usb data cables on ebay (for
$0.99) are prolific pl2023-based. It involves a little more work, but it's a
heck of alot cheaper.

-Corey
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