[U-Boot] USB serial console under Uboot

[mike zheng]

I do have a USB-RS232 cable. I am using MPC8549 as processor. Would
you please let me know more details on the usbtty?

On 8/20/08, Hunter, Jon <jon-hunter at ti.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have one system with USB connector only, no RS232 port. How can I do
> > > the interaction with Uboot?
> > >
> > You can start by providing much more detail.  I don't know if there's
> > USB console support in U-boot, but if so I'm sure it's hardware dependent.
>
> There is usbtty support in u-boot but only for some OMAP1 devices (although it is broken in the current release) and for some MPC devices. Unfortunately, I don't believe that this is currently supported for OMAP3. Therefore, I think that you are going to need an RS232-to-USB dongle for your PC in order to interact with u-boot.
>
> Cheers
> Jon
>