Re: [ECOS] [OT] JTAG and the Wiggler in linux

[Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at ecoscentric dot com>]

Scott Dattalo wrote:
> > > Also, as a rhetorical question, why
> > > would a company that exclusively sells hardware intentionally hide the
> > > software interface to it's products? On second thought, forget that I
> > > asked the question...  maybe I should go read Slashdot or something.
> >
> > Maybe they're pressed by providers of commercial tools. They don't even
> > answer if you ask them about it.
>
>
> Well, what I find incredulous is that the arm-elf package that they
> provide won't install on Windows 98SE (setup croaks with error -5002).
> Thus even if I had an inclination to do my ARM development on a Windows
> Box, I *still* couldn't use their tool beyond what's provided by OCDemon.
> Sigh. What are they going to do when eCos eventually puts all other RTOS's
> out of business? I guess I'm full of rhetorical questions today...

IIRC, Wiggler support used to be built into gdb as standard but was 
removed by the gdb maintainers since their software was not GPL 
friendly. I don't know the specifics. When asked, the company in 
question would not open source their software either since the IP of the 
wiggler does not lie within the hardware (which turns out to be a very 
simple piece of kit) but within their dll software.

-- Alex

>

> Scott

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