13:09 <NishanthMenon> tomba: yeah - the serial port stuff gets in the way. Though, i work directly on the board without serial port.

13:09 <NishanthMenon> i just plugin the mini-dp to my monitor and use keyboard and mouse..

13:10 <NishanthMenon> upstream kernel does work to display.

13:20 <tomba> I didn't want to start installing the full image or trying blindly to get it boot from with rootnfs. I ordered the serial adapter from digikey...

13:20 <NishanthMenon> aah gotcha

13:21 <NishanthMenon> yeah - the serial port is irritating.. the prevailing wisdom for the choice of that connector is because it was already used on am57xx based beaglebone-ai - and hence provide continuity

13:23 <tomba> it's not very clearly documented. or at least I had trouble finding info about the serial and adapter needed. I think I got a link to digikey's adapter from some forum post.

13:23 <NishanthMenon> tomba: yup. I was trying to look at https://docs.beagleboard.org/latest/boards/beaglebone/ai-64/ch07.html and got miffed as well.

13:24 <NishanthMenon> Sigh.. need to figure out how to build the docs and then send patches for those..

13:27 <NishanthMenon> Looked up in the internal docs: options were: https://www.newark.com/element14/1103004000156/beaglebone-ai-serials-cable/dp/50AH3702

13:27 <NishanthMenon> https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/digi-key-electronics/BBCAI/10187731

13:27 <NishanthMenon> https://www.amazon.com/CHILUVU-100pcs-Connector-Connectors-Terminals/dp/B088DDXYYW/

13:29 <NishanthMenon> tomba: dunno how well the text will look but here goes: https://gist.github.com/nmenon/d93b0df9a7194c320a97445cd60b6566 https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/jBPyo7JT/image.png

13:31 <tomba> Ok. Yep, I ordered the BBCAI from digikey.

13:32 <NishanthMenon> cool.. Sorry for the inconvenience.. should have put the foot down harder :(

13:38 <tomba> The adapter should be included in the AI-64 box ;)

13:40 <tomba> Well, I don't know if even that helps, maybe most of the people don't have an FDTI cable. UART via microusb is just so easy... But the board does look quite crowded, so I bet there just was no room.

13:41 <NishanthMenon> tomba: yep.