Sorry, I didn't reply earlier.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2010 06:32:46 Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>> Just to say that a friend of mine had an ICEBear cable,  so I
>> discovered it was a yet-another-FTDI2232-based:
>>
>> http://hackerspace.be/Icebear_jtag
>>
>> I spent some time searching for documentation on the ICEBear+urjtag,
>> but I did not found that much.
>
> it is wired up slightly differently from the gnICE, and the creator of the
> ICEBear has no interest in supporting open source tools -- he has his own
> closed source forks of things (perfectly legal as they're BSD and such) that
> are "faster" and only work with the ICEBear, so he wants people to pay the
> extra $$$ for it.
>
I think "faster" might not even be true now compared ICEBear +
proprietary software to gnICE + urjtag + gdbproxy. Even there is
gnICE+ now, which is based on ft2232h, i.e. supports high speed USB.

> it should be trivial to use the gnICE examples and maybe switch one or two
> bits, but since the device is geared towards Blackfin parts, might as well
> just buy the much cheaper gnICE/gnICE+ ...
>
> during early gnICE testing, we did resolder one of the pins on a few ICEBears
> so that it worked the same as the gnICE and thus "just worked" with the rest
> of the software stack, but once the gnICE was stable, we havent bothered with
> the ICEBear since.

You can use a multimeter to detect the pin connection. It should be easy.


Jie

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