On Monday 05 April 2010 06:28:44 Jie Zhang wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Mike Frysinger 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.
i was referring to flash programming. the ICEBear stack supports programmers that run on the Blackfin core rather than wiggling the pins directly. although, with my VDSP flash programmer gdb script, i'd be hard pressed to outline what ICEBear has now that doesnt exist for free. -mike
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