Re: AgileDB and Abatron BDI 2000 ICE

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Steven,

in message <159C486347C8D3119B1D005004A469400244BC6B@OLIVE> you wrote:
>
> >From the AgileDB product data sheet (I can send it to you if
> you'd like), it is clearly a GUI front end for GDB, or any

Thanks, I've read it.

> other debugger you want to use.  They allow you to issue any
> GDB (or any tool's) command-line command from a prompt, if
> that's what you're familiar with.  From their data sheet:

This is why I wonder what they provide which  is  not  available  for
example  in  DDD,  which is available for free and pre-installed with
all major Linux distributions.

> * The BDI 2000 ICE Command Set

available with DDD/GDB though GDB's "monitor" command

> * The GDB Command Set

available through GDB itself.

> * Target Serial I/O (over telnet)
> * Any Tool or Service that uses Telnet
> * Boot Agents Like: PPC/U-BOOT
> * User-Defined Tests and Target Services

Yeah, all available without AgileDB, too.

> Theoretically, you're supposed to have productivity gains
> by using their GUI (if you invest the time to learn it, just
> as you've invested time to learn a CLI) over the equivalent

You can use DDD if you want a GUI.

> debuggers suffer from.  In a particular debug session, you
> can put all of the things that are most important to you
> into a single window.  I have no idea if this enhances
> productivity, but I know that one of the reasons that I
> prefer CLIs is that I spend more time opening, closing,
> re-sizing, and just plain fiddling with the GUI windows.

As mentioned before, you will have to test yoursdelf if you like  the
tool,  or  not.  But do yourself a favour and test DDD, too. And then
compare the prices.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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