neocon is a handy serial console utility (not only) for u-boot.
neocon has a few graving advantages over some other terminal apps:
root
to access /dev/ttyACM0
with neocon. Beeing member of dialout
should give you sufficient privileges.
/dev/ttyACM0
being available. It will automatically connect as soon as you start u-boot on the Neo.
Download the source from http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/werner/neocon/ to a directory of your choice and build neocon by issuing
make
To connect to the bootloader use
./neocon -t 30 /dev/ttyACM0
To quit neocon type:
~.