wireless wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Friday 12 September 2008, billium wrote: >>> get openocd from respository, svn checkout >>> svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk/openocd and extract >> >> why ? we have an openocd-9999.ebuild which fetches straight from the >> upstream site ... > > I have to chuckle out loud...... > > > Some time ago, I inquired about using developing on embedded (gentoo) > linux using Eclipse and any sort of TAG/BDM device. > > > I still remember the (focused) scolding you gave me about how that > was not the *nix way. Command line, burn and churn, etc etc.... > > As an old (*nix) fart, I rather enjoyed (and agreed with) your prose. > However, the planet is being overrun with young kids that like their > gui-fied tools.... >
Rhetorical Question: How many of those "young kids" are _good_? There is no shortcut to deep understanding (no, I'm no where close). Something a GUI obfuscates away, the cli celebrates. But then, we agree... ;-) > Now you are pointing folks to openocd......? Are you implying that openocd is a gui? I think you might be referring to something else. Here's a quick and dirty: http://openhardware.net/Embedded_ARM/OpenOCD_JTAG/#testocd Basically, run openocd from the command line, specifying a config file. Then telnet into it. ;-) Someone may have glossed over this with a gui, but that's not what crops up in google. > Maybe we can all agree on a BSP that works well with a JTAG and > Eclipse, and make it an option for Noobs wanting to get into > embedded Gentoo? I think this is an easier sell than GNAP....? > Keeping cost down is a good idea, and my early vote goes for > an Arm9 board. I haven't needed a jtag for it, since the bootloader was sufficient, but I like the NSLU2 as a good starter kit. I recently saw one on ebay for ~$30US. I bought mine new years ago for ~$70US. The next step after that (at least, what I did) was the Gateworks 2348-4 board. Same processor, 4 mini-pci, 2 ethernet, USB as an option. It's less than $300US. Openocd works with it's parallel jtag programmer. I haven't needed that yet either, since the bootloader works for me. The ethernet support is native in the vanilla kernel since about 2.6.21 or .23. As of 2.6.27, the kernel has support for the hardware crypto engine. IPsec VPN gateway, anyone? insert 2 cent quote here. Jason.
