From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: llandre Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:35:12 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] BDI vs. Lauterbach In-Reply-To: <427722615.20060410170041@varma-el.com> References: <427722615.20060410170041@varma-el.com> Message-ID: <443A8940.3050102@dave-tech.it> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > Pros: > BDI - 10Mbit eth, Lauterbach - 100 Mbit. > Lauterbach scalable and simply extendable, BDI - not. 1) Powerful scripting language 2) Very user friendly 3) Rich commands set that allows to debug hardware problems, too 4) Can "interpret" peripheral registers to provide human readable/changeable values 5) O.S. awarness for several o.s. and RTOSes 6) Modularity (trace module, logic analyzer module) > Cons: > BDI support gnu toolchain natively (in GDB server mode), > Lauterbach - not (sometime it parsing elf/dwarf correctly, > sometime, usually in critical cases :), not). > And you are know, hmm, strange Lauterbach price policy: > price of BDI firmware for a new CPU target is approx. 1000 eur, > for the Lauterbach - price of new device. 1) So far no gdb support 2) USB version doesn't support Linux on host -- llandre DAVE Electronics System House - R&D Department web: http://www.dave-tech.it email: r&d2 at dave-tech.it