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Re: Macraigor Raven JTAG hardware


Shaun Jackman wrote:
> The Macraigor Raven is a JTAG debugging device that I'd like to use to
> debug an ARM7 target. It requires a small proprietary program,
> OCDRemote, that translates GDB-speak to some parallel port witchery.
> Is there an open-source replacement for this program available
> anywhere?

Someone's made an attempt, see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdbice/

> It seems it shouldn't be terribly difficult to reverse engineer [1]
> their parallel port protocol by spewing some debug output from the
> Linux parallel port driver.

This might help:
http://www.arm.com/pdfs/DDI0029G_7TDMI_R3_trm.pdf

(probably the only thing you'll have to reverse engineer is the pin
configuration.)

> Alternatively, who can recommend a cost effective way to debug the
> ARM7 using Linux, GDB, and JTAG? I have up to about a thousand bucks
> to spend on this project, but many JTAG devices cost a heck of a lot
> more than that.

http://hri.sourceforge.net/tools/jtag_faq_org.html

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soam


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