In regards to how Zylin is approaching this market: We *do* sell the ZY1000, but our core business is consulting.
This is reflected in the ZY1000 pricing and how we support it. It is more expensive than your average dongle, which can even be onboard a devkit making it effectively cost a couple of $'s. What we are looking for is to have the ZY1000 work out of the box without tinkering with OpenOCD releases, etc. We build and provide firmwares for our unit. The ZY1000 runs OpenOCD and is accessed via TCP/IP, which reduces driver hazzle and is along the lines a lot of developers are accustomed to work. If customers have problems, they can contact us and we help them directly instead of them having to try their luck elsewhere. This means that we want a plethora of working and tested target scripts and that we are concerned about performance and quality. We would love to see more target support that we can comfortably recommend to our customers. ARM11 is coming up and hopefully Cortex-A8 eventually. Our effort into OpenOCD is disproportional to how much we have made back on the ZY1000 directly, but we enjoy open source work and participating in the community. If someone out there thinks that Zylin makes a great contribution and we would be happy if you bought a ZY1000, but *EVEN MORE HAPPY* :-) if you bring us consulting work or talk about us to your clients and colleagues. Click on the link at the bottom of the email to read more or write me an email directly. We offer pretty much a full range of embedded hardware, software and FPGA consulting work. -- Øyvind Harboe Embedded software and hardware consulting services http://consulting.zylin.com _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
