Hello guys!

 

I'm beginner of Armbian. 

The problem is:

Install Armbian Stretch mainline kernel 4.14.y on my device(Orange_Pi_PC),But I don't know how to enable UART1 .

I tried to select UART1 & UART2 & UART3 on armbian-config,now i can see 'overlays=uart1 uart2 uart3' in /boot/armbianEnv.txt

Connect serial device with P40(RX) P39(GND) P38(TX) .

when i check serial device on ssh, i can see this info:

 

uname -a
Linux orangepipc 4.14.84-sunxi #3 SMP Sat Dec 1 07:18:41 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
 

ls -l /dev/ttyS*

crw--w---- 1 root tty     4, 64 Dec  4 20:24 /dev/ttyS0 
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Dec  4 20:36 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 Dec  4 21:08 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Dec  4 20:33 /dev/ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 68 Dec  4 20:24 /dev/ttyS4
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 69 Dec  4 20:24 /dev/ttyS5
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 70 Dec  4 20:24 /dev/ttyS6
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 71 Dec  4 20:24 /dev/ttyS7

 

dmesg | grep tty

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=3d863bb3-b616-4229-94e7-8c92ac95501a rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 loglevel=1 ubootpart=c0dd9a77-01 ubootsource=mmc usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u   sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1
[    0.000198] console [tty1] enabled
[    1.796248] console [ttyS0] disabled
[    1.816398] 1c28000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c28000 (irq = 42, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[    1.816450] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    1.839525] 1c28400.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1c28400 (irq = 43, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[    1.862474] 1c28800.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1c28800 (irq = 44, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[    1.885408] 1c28c00.serial: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x1c28c00 (irq = 45, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[    4.746240] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
 

setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
/dev/ttyS0: Permission denied
/dev/ttyS1, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 43
/dev/ttyS2, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 44
/dev/ttyS3, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 45
/dev/ttyS4, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
/dev/ttyS5, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
/dev/ttyS6, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
/dev/ttyS7, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0

 

 

When I saw this doc: https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Allwinner/

but there is no bin file in /boot:

ls /boot

armbianEnv.txt                  boot.scr              initrd.img-4.14.84-sunxi  vmlinuz-4.14.84-sunxi
armbian_first_run.txt.template  config-4.14.84-sunxi  overlay-user              zImage
boot.bmp                        dtb                   System.map-4.14.84-sunxi
boot.cmd                        dtb-4.14.84-sunxi     uInitrd
boot-desktop.png                dtb.old               uInitrd-4.14.84-sunxi
 

I tried to use UART1 with Python3:

 

#!/usr/bin/python
#-*-coding:utf-8-*-

import serial

my_printer = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS1',9600,timeout=1)
if my_printer.isOpen():
    pass
else:
    my_printer.open()
my_printer.write(b'\x1b\x40\x12\x54')

 

but it doesn't work.

 

BTW: serial device can work on Windows.

1 hour ago, Kwan Xian said:

[    1.839525] 1c28400.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1c28400 (irq = 43, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[    1.862474] 1c28800.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1c28800 (irq = 44, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A
[    1.885408] 1c28c00.serial: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x1c28c00 (irq = 45, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A

It seems that overlays did their job ...

Are you sure of your wiring ?

Maybe you can check by doing a loopback wire between pins 38/40 and do "picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyS1", then every thing you type will be echoed back.

47 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

It seems that overlays did their job ...

Are you sure of your wiring ?

Maybe you can check by doing a loopback wire between pins 38/40 and do "picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyS1", then every thing you type will be echoed back.

Thank you!

It works. I need to check my code between windows & Linux.

50 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

It seems that overlays did their job ...

Are you sure of your wiring ?

Maybe you can check by doing a loopback wire between pins 38/40 and do "picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyS1", then every thing you type will be echoed back.

Is't the same way to enable SPI0?

4 minutes ago, Kwan Xian said:

Is't the same way to enable SPI0?

A bit, yes ! look at the overlay doc :

### spi-spidev

Activates SPIdev device node (/dev/spidevX.Y) for userspace SPI access,
where X is the bus number and Y is the CS number

SPI 0 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): PC0, PC1, PC2, PC3
SPI 1 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): PA15, PA16, PA14, PA13

Parameters:

param_spidev_spi_bus (int)
        SPI bus to activate SPIdev support on
        Required
        Supported values: 0, 1

param_spidev_spi_cs (int)
        SPI chip select number
        Optional
        Default: 0
        Supported values: 0, 1
        Using chip select 1 requires using "spi-add-cs1" overlay

param_spidev_max_freq (int)
        Maximum SPIdev frequency
        Optional
        Default: 1000000
        Range: 3000 - 100000000

 

4 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

A bit, yes ! look at the overlay doc :

### spi-spidev

Activates SPIdev device node (/dev/spidevX.Y) for userspace SPI access,
where X is the bus number and Y is the CS number

SPI 0 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): PC0, PC1, PC2, PC3
SPI 1 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): PA15, PA16, PA14, PA13

Parameters:

param_spidev_spi_bus (int)
        SPI bus to activate SPIdev support on
        Required
        Supported values: 0, 1

param_spidev_spi_cs (int)
        SPI chip select number
        Optional
        Default: 0
        Supported values: 0, 1
        Using chip select 1 requires using "spi-add-cs1" overlay

param_spidev_max_freq (int)
        Maximum SPIdev frequency
        Optional
        Default: 1000000
        Range: 3000 - 100000000

 

Thank you sooooo much!

That's verrrrrry help for me.