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When would I use the console-st board rather than the console-hw board?
Use the console-st board when you need two serial ports for:
 * gumstix connex platform with Etherstix
 * gumstix connex platform with cfstix
 * gumstix basix platform with bluetooth

Note: In these situations, the second serial port of the console-hw board, which uses HWUART, becomes unavailable due to a serial line conflict. The console-st board uses the ST-UART serial interface on it's exposed, second serial connector, also called ttyS2, making that second serial port available in these scenarios.

Name changes as of March. 2007:

- console-st board used to be called the waysmall STUART board (BRD00003)

- console-hw board used to be called the waysmall original board (BRD00002)