Using a Pi as UART debugger for BMC

Question

A place to collect information on using a Pi as UART debugger Starting from zero as I had to look up what UART meant

kettleworthy · Answer

Found this in the Raspberry Pi documentation

kettleworthy · Answer

https www raspberrypi com documentation computers configuration html configuring uarts

kettleworthy · Answer

I think this blog post by Jeff Geerling is for looking at the Pi not using the Pi to look at something like the BMC on the TP2 but here it is

kettleworthy · Answer

https www jeffgeerling com blog 2021 attaching raspberry pis serial console uart debugging

cfsworks · Answer

Attach Pi pins shown in the blog post to BMC UART pins make sure to cross over TX >RX and RX >TX and on the Pi see whether there is a dev ttyAMA0 or dev ttyS0 and run `screen dev ttyWHATEVER0 115200` Haven t tried it myself but should work

kettleworthy · Answer

Thanks

teslamax · Answer

I m setting this up on my TP1 so a little different configuration and I m not quite finished with how I wanted it

kettleworthy · Answer

I set this up as a place for learning so anything you want to would be great