Debug board uses (was Re: Software Emulator)

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Sat Feb 17 21:47:29 CET 2007


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Michael Welter schreef:
> A little OT, but under what circumstances would a developer require a
> debug board?

A debug board would have 2 main uses for me:

1) a serial console so you can debug problems with X or initscripts
2) access to jtag so you fix the bootloader if something went wrong with uboot

A 'regular user' should never need 2) and 1) can be done with usb-ethernet emulation if
needed.

regards,

Koen
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