From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30073 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2005 02:48:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30061 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2005 02:48:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 Feb 2005 02:48:49 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.44 #1 (Debian)) id 1D1yC6-0000ab-OE; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:48:38 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:20:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Shaun Jackman Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Macraigor Raven JTAG hardware Message-ID: <20050218024838.GA2199@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Shaun Jackman , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <7f45d93905021716455fc758fd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7f45d93905021716455fc758fd@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SW-Source: 2005-02/txt/msg00116.txt.bz2 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:45:39PM -0800, Shaun Jackman wrote: > The Macraigor Raven is a JTAG debugging device that I'd like to use to > debug an ARM7 target. It requires a small proprietary program, > OCDRemote, that translates GDB-speak to some parallel port witchery. > Is there an open-source replacement for this program available > anywhere? It seems it shouldn't be terribly difficult to reverse > engineer [1] their parallel port protocol by spewing some debug output > from the Linux parallel port driver. Any chance GDB could some day use > the Raven natively? I don't know of any open source alternative. It might be possible to reverse engineer, but I'm not going to go there... > Alternatively, who can recommend a cost effective way to debug the > ARM7 using Linux, GDB, and JTAG? I have up to about a thousand bucks > to spend on this project, but many JTAG devices cost a heck of a lot > more than that. The only JTAG device I've heard anything about is the Abatron BDI2000, and its users swear by it. I think it runs above your budget, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC