SuperH DTF connection protocol

Andrew Stubbs Andrew.Stubbs@st.com
Tue Aug 21 06:28:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 larwe@larwe.com wrote:

> 
> >here have a gdb server working with DTF as the protocol. This is why we
> >want newlib plumbed into DTF somehow (in a more official way than we
> >currently do).
> 
> Why the secrecy, though? If there is something of hacker interest there - 
> e.g. debugging protected microcontrollers, recovering media decryption 
> algorithms/keys, etc - it will be reverse-engineered anyway.

It's not about secrecy - just practicallity. One problem is that, at the
moment at least, the system is prone to change.

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