In my lab, we are currently using EST VisionICE boxes to develop custom PowerPC 8xx based boards. I recently got a BDI2000 evaluation unit and am trying to decide if it makes sense to purchase a few of these units and dump the EST boxes.
>From playing around with the Abatron unit, it seems the two biggest advantages are 1) MMU support 2) Can be used with a Linux based development pc Since we haven't had a problem bringing the kernel up on our boards, 1) isn't (currently) a big deal. What we really need is to be able to debug loadable modules, which from what I've gathered is only possible with kgdb. Is this assumption correct? We can flash our boards, download code, etc. and as I said, we've got the kernel running successfully. So other than point 2) above, is there anything else I've missed that would provide a compelling reason to purchase these units? Thanks, -Josh ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
