Hardware debuggers for PPC74xx G4 CPUs
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sun Nov 18 11:47:29 EST 2007
In message <9e4733910711141834n2bfb1742v5637c56e27e26f5a at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > * The documentation is only available under NDA, a problem for open
> > source debuggers.
>
> This is what we need. I would like it specifically for the mpc5200.
> But we want to use it in OpenOCD so NDA won't work.
It doesn't work. Been there a logn time ago. It's and endless
fingerpointing. Freescale (by then: Motorola) says they cannot
release any information because of their contracts with IBM, and vice
versa.
> Dominic is way experienced implementing JTAG for ARM CPUs. He has done
> several dozen interfaces. ARM doesn't have any problems releasing
> their debugging info.
JTAG is simple, but you don't get the necessery information for the
COP (= debug) interface.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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