Nico Coesel wrote: > Zach, > >> CC: Openocd-Dev >> Onderwerp: Re: [Openocd-development] my tech proposal >> >> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:35 +0200, Nico Coesel wrote: >>> Zach, >>> There are a few things missing on your list which I think >> are important: >>> - Coldfire support (which is basically an enhanced 68000 >> core) would >>> be nice. There is no open source solution out there to program >>> Coldfire controllers which is a shame because the Coldfire >> controllers >>> are actually quite nice and reasonably priced. Freescale >> thinks their >>> customers should use Codewarrior or take their business >> somewhere else. >>> - Completing ARM Cortex A8 support. >> How much of the Coldfire support would need to be reverse-engineered? >> With specifications and hardware, half of the battle will >> have already been won, but the lack of an open source >> solution makes me guess unencumbered references are >> unavailable. Posting links to references would help plant >> seed for others to pick this up and run with it. > > I looked at the BDM project Xiaofan posted. It seems like a good > starting point. It also has routines for external flash. Maybe its worth > to look into it to get some fresh ideas on the cfi implementation as > well. I used to have a Coldfire board but we returned it because of the > lack of proper hardware programming tools (Codesourcery has a complete > GCC kit for Coldfire).
Lack of proper hardware programming tools? The opensource bdm package referenced earlier is great, used it a lot over the years on various ColdFire parts. It is quite popular within the ColdFire development community (that package has been around for more than 10 years now...) Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Principal Engineer EMAIL: g...@snapgear.com SnapGear Group, McAfee PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
