Re: [Openocd-development] Who needs hardware debuggers anyway?

[Nicolas P. <ni...@ca...>]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Øyvind Harboe wrote:

> It is my impression that hardware debuggers are mainly used for
> porting Linux and writing apps without an OS or some deeply embedded
> OS.
> 
> Anyone using Linux w/an MMU would simply use "normal" GDB remote
> debugging as one would for PCs. I have never seen a hardware debugger
> for a PC in use. I'm sure they exist. :-)
> 
> I'm a little puzzled about the lack of interest/testing in the XScale.

Probably due to the lack of publicity for OpenOCD.

I've worked on ARM Linux for over 10 years now, and a sizeable portion 
of the Linux XScale support is my own.

Yet I've discovered about OpenOCD only last month as I was looking for a 
JTAG solution which would support Orion/Feroceon.


Nicolas