> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Mann [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:23 PM > To: Weddington, Eric > Cc: Joerg Wunsch; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [avr-chat] Debugging with AVR ISP Mk II via PDI? > > > On May 27, 2013, at 19:17 , "Weddington, Eric" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's for various reasons... > > Usually it's > > a) Want to keep it secret (for whatever reason). > b) Don't want to take the time to write it up > c) Don't want to deal with the extra support burden > d) Want to maintain the freedom to alter without worrying about > external users. > > But surely, by now, Atmel recognizes the benefit to making your > products easier to adopt by more people. In this case, you might just > enable someone to create a new debugger for XMEGA parts. > > I suppose documenting it might also eat into sales of development > tools, if people can currently talk to the AVR ISP MkII, or the Dragon, > or JTAG ICE, and those translate some known protocol to PDI. But unless > those make up the bulk of Atmel's sales, that doesn't seem like a good > enough reason.
... And we'll just have to leave it at speculation. ;-) Eric _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
