On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
<bpisu...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to understand the end objective of the JTAG work discussed in
> one of the threads last week (sorry, I'm behind on my mails!).
> There was one response that said: "The hope is that it would help debug
> usb/bt device issues on kw."; but beyond this I could not make out the use
> case for this work from the thread.
>
> Is the idea to use JTAG as a communication pipe on which to export virtual
> filesystems from within the device? Can somebody please elaborate?
>

The idea is to use JTAG to peek/set at the registers and pins and
maybe stop/start
the sheevaplug/guruplug. The JTAG on this machines can be accessed through
an endpoint in the usb/serial console.


-- 
- curiosity sKilled the cat

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