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Jarkko Sakkinen

No more fighting with a loose TTL-USB-cables: I have USB hub shield with USB-to-UART port :-) Or two of these: one for Raspberry Pi 3B+ and other for VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC (in the pic). Need to still pile a TPM2 chip to the pins on top of the shield and hopefully it will still work. #arm #riscv #visionfive2 #raspberrypi
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oops, wrong way around, never installed these before 🤷
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 7 months ago
Also got this display, right now it is connected to a 7th gen NUC that use to test all x86 patches (because it has full sgx2 support). Display cost less than 50 euros and it is super handy for kernel testing.
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Super-nice additional benefit of this shield: one cable less. Before I needed power cable and USB-TTL for TTY. Now only by connecting micro-USB to the shield it draws the power and provides serial access.

The screenshot has unmodified #BuildRoot master branch version built with visionfive2_defconfig. Seems to be much more stable than lean, at least for the kernel development, than the official SDK, which is quite scary looking construction tbh :-)

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The only wiring I have in it for serial TTY access:
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Edit: actually it costed bit less than 60 euros with a discount. The list price is 70 euros:
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CSD529PW?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

The USB HAT with UART-micro-USB bridge I got is https://www.amazon.de/dp/B072Q5S1XH?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details. I ordered couple of these (other for raspberry pi 400).

huge workflow improvements with less than 100 EUR investment :-)
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