[U-Boot-Users] BDI debugger + u-boot

[Jerry Van Baren]

At 10:16 AM 12/23/2002 -0500, invictus_rm at hotmail.com wrote:

>Hi,
>         I am looking for a hardware debugger to help me in broad bringup and
>kernel
>debugging . Searching through google , i could  find BDI2000 . It claims to
>support firmware debugging as well as linux kernel with MMU enabled ........
>         Has anyone on the list tried out the BDI2000.........
>         Will it be useful enough ??

YES

>Is there something better ??

NO

Sorry for shouting, but if you check the email archives of the ppc-boot 
(predecessor to u-boot), almost every discussion on hardware debugging has 
in it a recommendation to buy a BDI2000.  If the poor unfortunate had 
already bought something else, condolences were expressed and they were 
advised to give away the "something else" and buy a BDI2000.

It is possible to debug with "something else", but the bulk of the 
engineers here use the BDI2000 so you will get a lot more help here.  The 
reason for this is because Abatron is a very enlightened company, very 
responsive (last week I got an update overnight to support a new flash 
memory), supports linux very well (including kernel debug with MMU 
support), etc.

>regards
>rm

gvb



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