Bug#884601: "console=ttyAMA0,115200" --> "console=tty0"

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Luescher <lueschem@gmail.com> writes:
> I just faced a similar issue with the arm64 kernel
> (linux-image-4.14.0-0.bpo.2-arm64). It booted fine with the 4.13 based
> kernel but it failed after the upgrade to the above mentioned kernel. Since
> I wanted to debug the stuff I took a closer look at the cmdline.txt file:
> There I found the config "console=ttyAMA0,115200". This looked wrong to me
> since ttyAMA0 is the bluetooth device on the Raspberry Pi 3. Therefore I
> changed it to "console=tty0" and all of a sudden my system booted again
> with the 4.14 kernel.
>
> Another remark: My setup also worked with the 4.14 kernel combined with the
> device tree binary from the 4.13 kernel. However, I do not like this hack.
>
> My full setup is here: https://github.com/lueschem/edi-pi

Thanks for the details.

I just uploaded a new raspi3-firmware package which uses ttyS1 on Linux
≥ 4.14, which is the new device name for the UART on the pin header:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-raspi/raspi3-firmware.git/commit/?id=4da2e6b1576f0a7513bffe7f95882693fdadd7ae

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Best regards,
Michael