Re: RPI5 serial console? - Re: Raspbery Pi support (release notes/wiki page) update? (RPI5)

Paul Mather <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 15, 2025, at 9:16 am, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/14/25 08:08, Klaus Küchemann wrote:
>>> Am 14.01.2025 um 14:02 schrieb Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> On 1/14/25 08:00, Klaus Küchemann wrote:
>>>>> Am 14.01.2025 um 11:47 schrieb Ronald Klop <[email protected]>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for all this info.
>>>>> I received my RPI5 and noticed that the default serial/UART is not on GPIO anymore, but via a dedicated 3-pin JST HS (?) connector.
>>>>> 
>>>> dtoverlay=uart0
>>> 
>>>    I have no idea what that means. Something in /boot/loader.conf or
>>> in /etc/rc.conf or some other magic?
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> --
>>> Dennis Clarke
>>> RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
>>> UNIX and Linux spoken
>>> 
>>> 
>> in config.txt,
>> of course you’ll need the matching overlay(from the firmware) in place
>> Regards
>> K.
> 
> 
>    You are speaking of deep undocumented magic.


Not really.  In the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, config.txt is well-documented, e.g., https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/config_txt.html

Cheers,

Paul.
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