Re: USB-serial adapter suggestions needed
- In reply to: bob prohaska : "Re: USB-serial adapter suggestions needed"
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 17:02:11 UTC
Hi, Mix of ft232 and ch340 here as I need 1500000 baud for rockchip development. Picocom as “terminal” on either macOS or FreeBSD. No problems with any of those whatsoever. -Søren > On 24 Dec 2023, at 17.54, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 09:26:50PM -0800, Joseph Holsten wrote: >> >> >>> On Sat, Dec 23, 2023, at 16:43, bob prohaska wrote: >>> What are the best-supported usb-serial adapters for use with FreeBSD on >>> arm systems? >>> I'm specifically interested in Raspberryp Pi 2/3/4 (and maybe 5 >>> someday). >>> >>> I've been using pl2303 and ft232 but wonder if there might be others worth >>> considering. Pl2303 are cheap and have lately been working fairly well, but >>> if there's something better supported or behaved I'd like to know. >> >> I ended up going with the Raspberry Pi debug probe: >> https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/debug-probe.html >> If I remember correctly, it???s a pl2303 inside. I mostly got this model for the connectors and laziness. >> > > Laziness and frugality led me to the pl2303 also. At the moment, it looks > like the best choice. > > >> Jeff Geerling mentions some of the other options at https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/testing-raspberry-pis-new-debug-probe > > That's a good article, especially the references. > >> >> If I were doing it again, I???d probably get the Black Magic Probe which also supports JTAG https://www.adafruit.com/product/3839 >> > > Present purposes are dedicated to serial console interface. Perhaps someday, > but not yet. An apropos search for jtag finds > > altera_jtag_uart driver for the Altera JTAG UART Core > > Does that imply the only jtag device supported by FreeBSD must > be compatible with the particular device family? > > Thanks for writing! > > bob prohaska > >