Matias,

Thanks for the help. It was an incorrect master clock setting for the
board. I updated the Giant Board clock settings, and while I still can't
fully boot NuttX, but I am getting some logging lines and stack traces on
the serial port now. No garbage. :)

-adam



On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:41 PM Adam Feuer <a...@starcat.io> wrote:

> Matias,
>
> Thanks, I have a logic analyzer and will try that when I pick it up again.
> The weird thing about this is that I can use U-Boot on the serial console
> on the Giant Board – it knows how to use the UART correctly. But NuttX
> doesn't.
>
> Ah, that might be it– the two boards run at different frequencies. I am
> trying to use a nuttx.bin compiled for the SAMA5-XULT. I will check out the
> clock configuration and make one specifically for the Giant Board and its
> frequency.
>
> -adam
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:32 PM Matias N. <mat...@imap.cc> wrote:
>
>> When I had this problem of the serial giving garbage I used a logic
>> analyzer with pulseview and then try to hunt for a baud rate on the uart
>> protocol decoder which would give a valid interpretation. Often I found the
>> rate to be a multiple of the expected one which helped me figure out what
>> was set incorrectly.
>>
>> But yeah, without real debugging it will be painful to use.
>>
>> Best,
>> Matias
>>
>
>
> --
> Adam Feuer <a...@starcat.io>
>


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