Sebastien, OK understood, so me, Yanjun Luo and Adam will make sure we have a really nice and cheap cable to include with every Milkymist One for the first year or so. Wolfgang
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:27:14AM +0200, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote: > 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
