On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:47:21PM -0400, John Porubek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Daniel Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've just finished writing a tool for Linux/BSD which can be used to > > program and debug the MSP430 in the eZ430-RF2500 from Texas > > Instruments. > > > > Source code (GPLv2) and some documentation available here: > > > > http://homepages.xnet.co.nz/~dlbeer/ > > > > Bug reports or any other comments would be appreciated. > > > > Apologies for the off-topic message, but I figured that this would be > > of interest to a reasonable number of mspgcc users anyway... > > > > Regards, > > Daniel > > Hi Daniel, > > Thanks for making your tool for the eZ430-RF2500 available. I haven't > compiled and run the program yet, but I have a question about > something you wrote in the documentation. Under "USB interface" it > says: > > "This device has a product:vendor code of 0451:f432 and provides two > USB interfaces. One is a CDC-ACM class device (this is the interface > to the application UART). This interface is supported by Linux > 2.6.31.1, and appears as /dev/ttyACMxx." > > My question is - does this apply after compiling and running your > program or does it apply on a stock Linux system? If the latter, what > version of Linux are you running? I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and it > doesn't seem to be the case. I haven't installed the "libusb-dev" > package yet, either. > > I apologize for my ignorance, but I would appreciate whatever you can > do to enlighten me!
It applies to a stock Linux system. I've tried this with kernel version 2.6.31.1 (but it may work on earlier kernel versions -- I haven't tested this). The program I've written is independent of this. You can use the debug interface even if you don't have the application UART working, and vice versa. You only need libusb-dev to compile MSPDebug -- it's not required for the application UART. - Daniel
