On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:17:43PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:50:20AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >> I seem to have fried TX on my TTL serial converter. I can't get a new
> >> one until Tuesday. I'll see if I can rig things up to boot without
> >> needing to type since I can still receive the serial output.
> 
> So my new USB to serial converter came and the kernel boots now.
> 
> Isn't there a way to set the electrical drive strength on the pins?

Yes, there's the allwinner,drive property in the DT for this.

> Maybe the drive was ok under earlyprintk and then when the real UART
> driver lowered it when it took over.  Maybe my old old serial device
> was able to correctly read earlyprintk and couldn't understand the
> UART driver.  Just a guess.
> 
> New one is a different chip CP12xx. Old one was PL23xx.

I'm using a PL2301 on a regular basis and it works just fine.

Maxime

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