Re: [Openocd-development] GSOC: JTAG

[Øyvind H. <oyv...@zy...>]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Maximilian Odendahl
<max...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As I already wrote on the beagleboard mailing list, I'm in my last semester
> and interested to participate in Google Summer of Code. I'm especially
> interested in improving the JTAG support for OMAP3 significantly. In fact,
> I'm trying right now to get this approved as my final thesis project at the
> same time, so I could be working on this full time for 6 month.
>
> What is the current state of the Cortex A8 support? Is the info on[1]
> still up to date? I guess the final goal would be to be able to fully
> debug Linux as well as other OS's using OpenOCD(I'm also interested in
> getting this to work with Symbian, as a cheap solution to debug the kernel
> is currently missing completly).

Cortex A8 support is coming along, but it still needs work.

BeagleBoard has other special requirements. It has a very special
JTAG setup... JTAG router? icepick? or whatever it is called. A lot of work
was done to support it, but I haven't heard anything lately.

I have not seen a plan laid out on what's missing on Cortex A8 in general
and BeagleBoard in particular.

In fact, I think creating such a plan would be a great first step :-)


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