there are real RXD and TXD pins on the board though. I don't think that they have anything to do with breakpoints. plus it shows as an extra COM port under windows. the IAR back channel thing seems like something that could be done to any board. Jesse
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM, JMGross <[email protected]> wrote: > > >From the To E2E developers forum, I got the impression that the launchpad > >'back channel' is a fake com port. It is no real com port and not intended > >for any real-world application. > I always thought of this backchannel as a debugging breakpoint which causes > an JTAG data transfer from or to an MSP stub function when the function is > called and the breakpoint is hit. > Nobody ever told how it really works, only that it is no real UART (neither > hardware nor software) on the launchpad side. > It is mainly used to provide a console while inside a debugging session of > the IAR debugger. > > Well, I might be totally wrong, but that's what I extracted from all the > discussion on e2e. And all these discussions ended with this backchannel not > being easily (or not at all) usable for own stand-alone projects, even > under windows. > > JMGross > > ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- > Von: Gunnar Henne > An: [email protected] > Gesendet am: 27 Sep 2010 08:38:29 > Betreff: [Mspgcc-users] msp430 launchpad uart back-channel under Linux > > Hello, > > I am playing around with a launchpad. When I plug it in under windows > several devices are created, one of them is the uart back-channel, from > which I can read out the output of the temperature demo. How can this be > done under linux? I have studied the mspdebug man page, but found no hint... > > Greetings, > > Gunnar Henne > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Mspgcc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
