Re: JTAG debug support for ARM

["Peter Reilley" <micrio at mv dot com>]

The site is a work in progress, not everything is there.
I perhaps should have waited before announcing it
publicly, but some people asked about it.   The
source is available.   Email me and I will send it
to you, but it is changing daily.   It will be on the
site.

Pete.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: JTAG debug support for ARM


>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:01:23PM -0500, Peter Reilley wrote:
>> >There is nothing illegal about this site.  I have done most of the
>> >Linux and Solaris code on this site.  If you doubt this, ask them at
>> >their regular site www.macraigor.com The Wiggler is not supported under
>> >Linux and Solaris.  The Wiggler is supported under Windows.  Under
>> >Linux and Solaris the Raven and Ethernet products are supported.  The
>> >site is still a work in progress so everything is not there yet but
>> >keep checking.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the question of legality is open to interpretation if the
>> sources for the DLL are not provided and if the DLL is used with GDB.
>> 
>
>Furthermore, the GPL has explicit rules for Web sites: if the binary is
>available for downloading from a site, the same site must provide the
>sources that are necessary and sufficient to regenerate those binaries.
>
>Providing a link to another site where there are some sources is not
>enough.
>And in this case the sources pointed to are not sufficient to regenerate
>the
>binary nor equivalent to what was used as there are certainly changes to
>the
>gdb code.
>
>
>-- 
>Fernando Nasser
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