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any BDI2000 user here?
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DiTBho:
let me know, I need feedbacks :D
Njk:
I've some. Which feedback?
DiTBho:

--- Quote from: Njk on August 21, 2023, 12:12:57 pm ---I've some. Which feedback?

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I'd like to hear

* how good/bad is for { PowerPC4xx, CPU32, Coldfire-v1, MIPS32r2 } if ever used
* how good/bad is the software on the host side with GDB(BDI)
* if it's worth the money to buy one (second hand) these days
The BDI2K support for coldfire and CPU32 is confusing, some coldfire see not supported at all.

In this forum I asked several times about e-jtag and debugger for MIPS and Coldfire-v1, unfortunately it seems nobody is debugging for the (vintage) architectures of my interest.

Thanks  :D
Njk:
Used that boxes long time ago, to develop MGT560 and MGT5100 systems. No experience with GDB as it's not the only debugger. Commercial compiler suites such as CodeWarrior are usually more convenient. Imho the main problem with BDI2000 today is that PPC architecture is no more in fashion and the Abatron guys has retired with no firmware made available for public. My boxes are for PPC6xx/PPC7xx. The firmwares for ARM does exist (in theory) but I never seen it.
DiTBho:

--- Quote from: Njk on August 21, 2023, 09:01:02 pm ---No experience with GDB as it's not the only debugger. Commercial compiler suites such as CodeWarrior are usually more convenient.

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GreenHills are even better, if you have the money to pay the license.
The point about GDB-BDI is making it cheap and justifiable for hobby.


--- Quote from: Njk on August 21, 2023, 09:01:02 pm ---Imho the main problem with BDI2000 today is that PPC architecture is no more in fashion and the Abatron guys has retired with no firmware made available for public.

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Abatron is gone, and PPC4xx is no more used for avionics, too. Things like PPC460 are EOL since 2017.
But I don't care about modern stuff.
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