How much easier makes owning a BDI2000 things?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <4190FE1F.4080105 at esteem.com> you wrote:
>
> 	Its worth it weight in gold bringing up custom boards the first time 
> and writing/debuging the boot rom. It allows you to change register 

... or when debugging the Linux kernel, device drivers and especially
RTAI real-time modules (because you can really freeze the CPU  state,
including timers etc.).

> 	We haven't used ours much for debugging once things were up and 
> running(we have fallen back to using printk statements for debugging). 
> Though it can be used for that and some core kernel developers do use 
> it. (probably for debugging the printk code of the kernel  ;-)  )

Seems you never had to deal with any time critical problems, then.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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