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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Total Frustration with TI
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:58:57 +0100
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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!