From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Steven Rothweiler Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: AgileDB and Abatron BDI 2000 ICE From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:12:46 EDT." <159C486347C8D3119B1D005004A469400244BC6B@OLIVE> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:33:05 +0200 Message-Id: <20030711153310.7DD2FC6D82@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry." - Chekhov ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/