BDM recommendations

BDM recommendations

[Kyle Harris]

Hi,

I'm looking to purchase a new BDM emulator. Does anyone have
suggestions. I've been using EST's for several years on the 68xxx
platform and have been very pleased with it. But, of course, the PPC is
not supported with my current model and they recommend upgrading to
visionProbe for support ($$$).

Thanks for any advice.

Kyle.

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Re: BDM recommendations

[Matt Porter]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:38:53PM -0400, Kyle Harris wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to purchase a new BDM emulator. Does anyone have
> suggestions. I've been using EST's for several years on the 68xxx
> platform and have been very pleased with it. But, of course, the PPC is
> not supported with my current model and they recommend upgrading to
> visionProbe for support ($$$).

Sounds like time to upgrade to a BDI2000 (http://www.abatron.ch).  For
your money you get a quality Ethernet JTAG probe with a telnet/GDB
frontend and the best support I have every received from any tools
vendor (HMI, EST, and Applied included).

Going EST buys you into the famous Windriver support vacuum. :)

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Matt Porter
MontaVista Software, Inc.
mporter@mvista.com

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Re: BDM recommendations

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <39F86C2D.C242473B@nexus-tech.net> Kyle Harris wrote:
>
> I'm looking to purchase a new BDM emulator. Does anyone have
> suggestions. I've been using EST's for several years on the 68xxx

Since you're asking in a Linux group, it is probably  important  that
you  chose one that supports the MMU to allow Linux kernel and device
driver debugging.

At the moment I know of only one commercial product  that  integrates
well  in  a  Linux  environment:  that's  the BDI2000 by Abatron (see
www.abatron.ch). It provides boh a siple telnet interface  (which  is
useful  for  instance  for  image download or flash programming), and
also talks GDB remote protocol over the net, so you can attach easily
with GDB.

The other, non-commercial solution is MPCBDM or BDM4GDB as it's being
called today; see http://bdm4gdb.sourceforge.net/ .

Please let me know if you need more details.

Hope this helps,

Wolfgang Denk

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Re: BDM recommendations

[Eurico Inocencio]

Hello

>I'm looking to purchase a new BDM emulator. Does anyone have
>suggestions. I've been using EST's for several years on the 68xxx
>platform and have been very pleased with it. But, of course, the PPC is
>not supported with my current model and they recommend upgrading to
>visionProbe for support ($$$).

I also bough one BDI2000 for PowerPc 82XX from Abatron,
the product is quite good, support works not only fix problems
but also to improve the product. For example I received frequent
firmware updates with new features (support for MMU, Linux kernel
image download). With DDD in control of the BDI box you get a great
graphical debugger.

Just another happy user


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Re: BDM recommendations

[Graham Stoney]

Ron Flory writes:
>  couldn't find that one, it seems to live here now...
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdm4gdb/

There's no content there though, which is why there's no pointer to it in the
HOWTO.  Try the MPCBDM site at:
    http://www.vas-gmbh.de/software/mpcbdm/

Regards,
Graham
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Re: BDM recommendations

[Wolfgang Denk]

In  message   <20001030000132.C1A904FF2B@brixi.research.canon.com.au>
Graham Stoney wrote:

> Ron Flory writes:
> >  couldn't find that one, it seems to live here now...
> >
> >     http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdm4gdb/
>
> There's no content there though, which is why there's no pointer to it in the
> HOWTO.  Try the MPCBDM site at:
>     http://www.vas-gmbh.de/software/mpcbdm/

This is the *old* project, which has seen major changes since.

I don't really understand this: both

	http://bdm4gdb.sourceforge.net/

[which introduces the BDM4GDB Interface Project] and

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/bdm4gdb/

[the "official" project home page] work fine for me.

Wolfgang Denk

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