picking an ARM board with jtag for debugging

[chris@basementcode.com (Christopher Harvey)]

 On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:04:12 +0200, luca ellero <lroluk@gmail.com> 
 wrote:
> On 31/05/2011 16.39, Christopher Harvey wrote:
>>   I'm looking for an ARM board with a cortex a9 mpcore with a good
>>   solution for jtag debugging under linux.
>>
>>   I have a beagle and a pandaboard sitting in front of me, but the 
>> beagle
>>   only has cortex a8 and the pandboard jtag situation looks pretty 
>> dismal.
>>   (You need to buy and download a lot of software). Cost really 
>> isn't an
>>   issue, (under 1000$) but good gdb support is critical.
>>
>>   I need jtag specifically because kgdb doesn't start up soon enough 
>> for
>>   me.
>>
>>   Anybody here doing ARM linux development with jtag?
>>
>>   thanks,
>>   -Chris
>>
>
> Hi Christopher,
> why not give a look at OpenOCD? Some guys (me included) have sent 
> some
> patches to support Cortex A9 and Panda. Development version has now
> (basic) support for Pandaboard.
> Anyway you have to use development version (git clone
> git://repo.or.cz/openocd.git) since 0.4.0 stable release hasn't good
> support for Cortex A8/A9.
> Furthermore, if you use git version you can also contribute to 
> improve
> cortex-A* support, which is always very welcome ;-)
> I'm just about to write an HowTo to explain how to use OpenOCD on 
> Panda.
> I will publish it on my site soon.
>
> regards
> Luca Ellero
>

 Thanks Luca,
 I find it funny that of all the expensive jtag solutions out there, 
 OpenOCD seems to be the most convenient. I will probably try that 
 direction out. Hopefully I will find the time to learn and help out with 
 OpenOCD if I happen to need features that it doesn't already support.

 -C