Hi,

I’ve found OpenOCD useful recently at work.  Our debugger hadn’t arrived, so I 
put together a setup using OpenOCD+AlteraUSBblaster.  For that, I thank you.

I am interested with the idea of using OpenOCD+RaspberryPi as a self-contained 
debugger.  (Plug in power, ethernet, JTAG cable and off you go).  I see there 
is already support, and Paul also has an (old) project in Gitorious.  However I 
thought JTAG master on the Pi could be done better than GPIO — using the SPI 
controller.  So here are my questions to the developers:

1) Is there enough interest in using RaspberryPi as the whole debugger?  (no 
host/USB dongle necessary.)

2) Is this even a problem?  Do people who use the RaspberryPi feel GPIO bit 
banging is too slow or am I imagining a non-issue?

3) The BCM2835 SPI controller appears to be flexible enough to use as a JTAG 
master.  The current SPI driver couldn’t accommodate JTAG.  If I go about 
writing a new driver on the Pi, how should the interface look to the 
application (OOCD specifically).  Do you have other JTAG interface that you 
feel is such a good fit, I could use as an example?  (Or your dream JTAG 
interface…)

I look forward to your input.

Thanks,
Berk



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