[U-Boot] U-boot debugger/emulator

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>]

On 18:33 Mon 09 Mar     , Steven Zedeck wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> This question is related to U-boot; in particular debugging in a U-boot
> environment.
> 
> I am working on U-boot for the first time as well as working with the Atmel
> AT91SAM9 processor. I am used to working with emulators when debugging low
> level code such as embedded diagnostics.
> 
> I've never used the Atmel till now. In the past, I've worked with many
> PowerPCs, Freescale, and Microchip processors. All have had various
> emulators such as Microchip's ICD2, and with PowerPC I've used VisionClick,
> CodeTap, etc.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a good JTAG-based emulator with a good Windows or
> Linux-based debugger? Microchip's tools were very inexpensive and pretty
> powerful. PowerPC's were a bit more expensive. I need something where I can
> build U-boot with its makefiles, that we all know and love, load the code
> into flash and/or ram, set breakpoints, single-step, look at variables, look
> at C-source code, registers, possibly an IDE/editor, etc.
You will have 2 good ICE with multiple ARCH support
PEEDI from Ronetix (with dataflash, NAND and OneNAND support I'll recommand
for AT91)

or BDI3000 from Abatron

The both work well on MacOS, Linux and Windows

Best Regards,
J.