Re: [AVaRICE-user] JTAGICE mkII

[Theodore A. R. <tr...@op...>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, E. Weddington wrote:

> Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I recently got a JTAGICE mkII at work.  AVR Studio 4 makes my skin crawl,
> >though, besides not giving me any useful insight into my code's problem.  I'd
> >like to use AVaRICE and GDB/Insight/DDD to debug my system.
> >
> >From the AVR Freaks forums, it looks like Colin O'Flynn is working on mkII
> >support for AVaRICE, but I don't see any of the code either on AVR Freaks,
> >the AVaRICE CVS, or on this list.  I'd like to help out getting AVaRICE
> >working with the mkII, and it's probably easier working on what Colin has
> >started than starting from scratch ^_^
> >
> >
> >
>
> AFAIK, Colin has written *some* code, but it's nowhere near finished. We
> have to give him a break, because he's just started his first year at
> University, so I don't know how much time he will have to devote to this.
>
> According to that thread in AVR Freaks, someone posted something to the
> effect that Atmel will release the protocol for the mkII in about 6
> months. We'll see if this really happens.
>
> If you want to continue what Colin has started, perhaps you can send him
> a private message via AVR Freaks or email him directly.

Please keep the discussion on this list so everyone can know what is
going on.

I have a mkII at work and at home now, but haven't had a chance to dig
into them yet, but am interested in helping out too.

I've already started thinking about moving protocol specific stuff in to
a class and then multiplexing on that with a command line switch
(default being the old jtagice protocol for now).

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