Odd-looking serial console prompt on RPI2

[Shawn Webb]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:09:37PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 03:02:45PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > The bugs should be fixed as of r314682. ?It looks like the bugs have
> > long been in the pl011 driver, but were masked by having a fifo depth
> > of 1 byte -- it all sorta worked by accident previously.
> 
> Thanks for the fix! But it looks to be only partial. When I connect to
> the serial console via either cu or screen, I don't get corrupted text,
> but no keypresses are registered. Hitting enter at the login prompt does
> absolutely nothing. I'm at the latest commit of hardened/current/master
> on HardenedBSD for both the RPI3 and my laptop.
> 
> I'm using this serial cable from Adafruit:
> https://www.adafruit.com/product/954

It looks like I had a bad cable. Sorry for the line noise. Switching to
a different cable worked.

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Shawn Webb
Cofounder and Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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