1. Mount the boot partition
mkdir boottemp
mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 boottemp
2. Append the following to the last entry uEnv.txt (now in boottemp)
capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART1,BB-UART2,BB-UART4,BB-UART5
3. Reboot
I found the solution here for Angstrom, but it works fine for Arch Arm
http://blog.pignology.net/2013/05/getti ... ng-on.html