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To: "Mark Chambers" <markc@mail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: JTAG debug mechanism 
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:18:56 +0200
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In message <004301c48145$a072a150$0301a8c0@chuck2> you wrote:
>
> Motorola does not release all the information about the debug interface on
> all their processors.  However, the

Well, they do (or it would be impossible to build  devices  like  the
BDI2000), but only under NDA.

> BDM interface is well documented, and there is an open source project called
> bdm4gdb.sourceforge.net, which

...and this NDA also prevents us from implementing  COP  support  for
BDM4GDB  [at  least when basing the software on GDB which requires it
to be GPLed] :-(

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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