At 10:16 AM 12/23/2002 -0500, invictus_rm@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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