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wireless wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Friday 12 September 2008, billium wrote: |
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>>> get openocd from respository, svn checkout |
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>>> svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk/openocd and extract |
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>> why ? we have an openocd-9999.ebuild which fetches straight from the |
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>> upstream site ... |
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> I have to chuckle out loud...... |
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> Some time ago, I inquired about using developing on embedded (gentoo) |
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> linux using Eclipse and any sort of TAG/BDM device. |
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> I still remember the (focused) scolding you gave me about how that |
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> was not the *nix way. Command line, burn and churn, etc etc.... |
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> As an old (*nix) fart, I rather enjoyed (and agreed with) your prose. |
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> However, the planet is being overrun with young kids that like their |
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> gui-fied tools.... |
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Rhetorical Question: How many of those "young kids" are _good_? There |
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is no shortcut to deep understanding (no, I'm no where close). |
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Something a GUI obfuscates away, the cli celebrates. But then, we |
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agree... ;-) |
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> Now you are pointing folks to openocd......? |
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Are you implying that openocd is a gui? I think you might be referring |
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to something else. Here's a quick and dirty: |
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http://openhardware.net/Embedded_ARM/OpenOCD_JTAG/#testocd |
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Basically, run openocd from the command line, specifying a config file. |
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Then telnet into it. ;-) |
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Someone may have glossed over this with a gui, but that's not what crops |
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up in google. |
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> Maybe we can all agree on a BSP that works well with a JTAG and |
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> Eclipse, and make it an option for Noobs wanting to get into |
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> embedded Gentoo? I think this is an easier sell than GNAP....? |
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> Keeping cost down is a good idea, and my early vote goes for |
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> an Arm9 board. |
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I haven't needed a jtag for it, since the bootloader was sufficient, but |
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I like the NSLU2 as a good starter kit. I recently saw one on ebay for |
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~$30US. I bought mine new years ago for ~$70US. |
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The next step after that (at least, what I did) was the Gateworks 2348-4 |
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board. Same processor, 4 mini-pci, 2 ethernet, USB as an option. It's |
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less than $300US. Openocd works with it's parallel jtag programmer. I |
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haven't needed that yet either, since the bootloader works for me. |
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The ethernet support is native in the vanilla kernel since about 2.6.21 |
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or .23. As of 2.6.27, the kernel has support for the hardware crypto |
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engine. IPsec VPN gateway, anyone? |
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insert 2 cent quote here. |
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Jason. |
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