On Saturday 17 July 2010 02:48:26 Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > Do we want to include this cable in every Milkymist One we sell?
For the first "developer" devices (let's say, during the first year): yes, definitely. Given the price of the Xilinx cables and the quality of their software (just every person I know who installed their JTAG tool Impact - a multi-GB piece of proprietary bloatware btw - reported cable detection problems), it's better to lower the barriers to entry of potential developers and also provide an easier way to upgrade in case the self-reflash tool isn't completely ready when the first devices come out. Then, once the software is mature, it's probably better to make it optional as many "end users" will not care about JTAG and UART. And after the first year, any bug in the self-reflash system will hopefully have been weeded out, making the cable essentially a developer tool (not an unbrick tool since no/very few devices will get bricked). Sébastien _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkym...@freenode Webchat: www.milkymist.org/irc.html Wiki: www.milkymist.org/wiki
