On Nov 9, 2007 10:58 AM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > chain). Somebody who's seen the internals of the TI libraries > assured me that they don't know how to deal with any other > devices in the chain. [...]
> art. OTOH, I've corresponded with people that have been able > to mix-and-match devices from a half-dozen other vendors in a > JTAG chain with no problems. TI seems to uniquely > unwilling/unable to properly implement. > > This is a perfect illustration of why open source is in the long term better. TI feels that they need to protect their proprietary JTAG implementation, and as a result blocks others from making needed fixes. I think the techniques that between Grant, Nico and Chris they had enough good ideas to fix the broken TI parts, if they could patch the source. I hope someone from TI is listening.
