Re: JTAG emulator for MPC8548E (v2)

["Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:19:17AM -0800, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

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> > I had a look at U-Boot code and tried to initialize the processor registers 
> > with the same values, without luck. I asked Abatron's French distributor for 
> > technical support, and they haven't been able to help me. They made me try 
> > lots of different initialization sequences. Several people online sent me 
> > their configuration file, and none of them worked for me.
> > 
> > So, there must be a configuration problem somewhere, but even Abatron's 
> > technical support haven't been able to find it. That's why I complained about 
> > their support in my e-mail.
> 
> In your original e-mail you made it look like BDI has a bug in it, 
> which in fact isn't true. Bad support might be a concern, I agree, but 
> this doesn't make a tool bad, IMHO.

FWIW, I've had top-notch support from Abatron.  Also, back when my
company bought a bunch of BDI's they were around half the price of the
nearest competitor and less cumbersome to use.  Maybe there are cheaper
alternatives now, I don't know.  Obviously, YMMV.

And no, I don't get a kickback from them... :)

Mark