On Thursday 03 December 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Interest is pretty evident when you want to display debugging > information from code running on a target without a serial port for > example, or during early board bringup when there is simply no code yet > to drive the serial port. This is also pretty handy when writing, say, > SPI flash programming utilities which are best ran on the target > directly but with the ability to provide interactive menus and read (or > write) data files directly from the host. Etc. Etc...
Those are three good examples; thanks. Related to that SPI example: more efficient writing of multi-stage NAND boot loaders too! Doing page-at-a-time I/O, and ECC, over JTAG is not speedy, and when you need to craft special headers for ROM bootloaders ... ugh! I'll let your email linger in my mailbox for a while, and hope that somebody else turns it into a HOWTO. :) My thought on this is that since this is a new feature, and one that relies on a library that not all compilers provide, we're better off working with a separate HOWTO for a while. - Dave _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
