Re: Total Frustration with TI

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From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject	Re: Total Frustration with TI
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On 23/03/17 20:50, Tim Wescott wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:43:28 +0100, David Brown wrote:
>
>> On 23/03/17 18:49, Tim Wescott wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Oh joy.  I feel for you.
>>>
>>> Part of the reason that I do nearly all of my development with ARM
>>> Cortex parts using 3rd-party open-source tools is because the tools
>>> seem to have fewer really fatal flaws, and when they do there's someone
>>> out in the community who's flogging things to make the flaws go away.
>>>
>>> It was a stroke of genius on ARM's part to make a common debug
>>> interface -- it means that one tool chain will work on anybody's ARM
>>> Cortex parts.
>>>
>>>
>> The irony here is that on one of my projects based on a Freescale
>> Kinetis, the debugger I am using (with Linux) is a small board that came
>> free with a TI demo kit!
>
> It must be one of the ARM core parts from Luminary -- their debug
> hardware is compatible with OpenOCD, and works pretty well with other
> manufacturer's stuff (although the early boards didn't treat reset as
> well as the 3rd-party dongles do -- I don't know if this was fixed in
> later versions or not).
>

It was indeed a Luminary Micros part - well done!

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Total Frustration with TI rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 13:40 -0400
  Re: Total Frustration with TI Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2017-03-23 12:49 -0500
    Re: Total Frustration with TI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-23 20:43 +0100
      Re: Total Frustration with TI Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2017-03-23 14:50 -0500
        Re: Total Frustration with TI David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-23 21:58 +0100
  Re: Total Frustration with TI rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 14:14 -0400
    Re: Total Frustration with TI John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2017-03-23 19:15 +0000
      Re: Total Frustration with TI rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 15:33 -0400
        Re: Total Frustration with TI John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2017-03-23 20:43 +0000
  Re: Total Frustration with TI Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2017-03-23 13:38 -0500
  Re: Total Frustration with TI rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 22:11 -0400
    Re: Total Frustration with TI Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2017-03-24 15:26 +0000

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