Alan Scott wrote:
Have downloaded and installed the new version (after uninstalling the
previous version). So far it works fine (after resolving the usual hassles
of Cygwin.dll - this is only a problem if Cygwin is already installed).
it should be possible to just uncheck the cygwin stuff in the installer
and use your installed cygwin. you may need to upgrade your cygwin to
the latest version tough.
One comment/question about the new downloader. Have noticed that it takes
significantly longer to download programs - about two to three times as long
- through GDB. Is there something we can do to get quicker downloads?
the downloader just uses the default 256 bytes. it is significantly
faster when the entire available RAM is used.
i often download with a "download" target in my makefile, where i use
msp430-jtag with the --ramsize option. some of the examples have such an
entry in the makefile ("make download" mapped on "ctrl+1" in SciTE and
finished is the one button compile and download :-)
The gdb.ini file that we are using is:
--------------------------------------
target remote localhost:3333
set remoteaddresssize 64
set remotetimeout 999999
mon erase
load debug\mathLibTst.elf
monitor reset
see http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/mspgcc/gdb-target.ini
you can force gdb to use a larger and fixed packet size. that should
help a bit. an other solution is to download with msp430-jtag and then
just connect the debuger (no "load", just tell gdb about the sources it
should use)
chris
