(14-02-2015, 07:29 AM)drewmerc Wrote: https://github.com/Broadcom/aeolus
interesting seems there should be another uart console for the linux side
I get a kick out of the fact that the reference design on github that you linked to is running OpenWRT on the linux CPU. Wonder if mine is.
https://github.com/Broadcom/aeolus/blob/...ux-log.txt
The reference design you linked to specifies two uarts because it also specifies the CM & Router are two separate boards joined by a ribbon cable. The board in this router has one 4 pin header that looks like a console port and another two row shrouded header with a pin pitch / spacing that looks a lot closer together than the 4 pin header and has quite a few more pins. I haven't taken a good enough look at it yet to see how many pins are on the two row header. The 4 pin is most likely a uart console and the 2 row higher density header is most likely a JTAG interface or even USB since these are supposed to have both host & device type usb ports. There's even mention of a USB-Serial interface being integrated that would require just a USB cable with the proper pin header end on it, plugged into a computer and it would appear as a FTDI serial chip.