Previously, it could never write more than a few bytes before pingpong getting a mismatch error. Now, I can pingpong Collapse OS binary without a mismatch.
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Tools
This folder contains tools to communicate to Collapse OS machines from a modern environment or to manipulate a blkfs.
Communication tools all take a device path as a first argument. That device is
the serial device that connects you to your machine. It's often a USB-to-TTL
dongle. When -
is specified, stdin
is used as the device.
Note that for these tools to work well, you need the serial device to be
properly set up, TTY-wise. You'll probably want to do that with stty
. The tool
itself takes care of setting the regular stuff (cs8
, -parenb
, etc), but you
need to set the speed. Here's an example working on OpenBSD:
$ ( stty 115200 raw ; ./upload - a000 os.bin ) <>/dev/cuaU0
To be honest, I'm having a bit of troubles making these tools work as well on OpenBSD as they do in Linux. But it does work. Here are some advices:
- Use
cuaXX
instead ofttyXX
. - Run
cu -l /dev/cuaXX
before running your tool and run a dummy command to make sure that the output buffer is flushed.
On Linux, it's generally easier:
- Run screen on the device (often
/dev/ttyUSBX
) - Quit with
CTRL+A :quit
- Run the tool on the same device