JTAG FPC compatibility

[Harald Welte]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:55:39AM +0100, Christoph Löw wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as someone who is deciding on whether he is going to buy the "Hacker's
> Lunchbox" I was wondering if the supplied FPC to connect the debug
> board to the NEO1973 will:
> 1) work for all future hardware revisions of the NEO1973?

yes.

> 2) work with other future (e.g. non-phone)OpenMoko devices?

that might be the case, but the whole openocd/debugboard combination is
restricted to arm-jtag, and we might have non-arm devices.  We'll try to
make it work with further devices, but sometimes fundamental
archtiectural constraints just make that impossible

> So basically the question is if the debug connector type and pinout
> will be an informal OpenMoko standard or if a new FPC will be needed
> for each new device.

the connector on the device side is likely to change, even for later
Neo1973 models.  However, the connector on the debug board side will
remain the same, thus only a new cable is required.

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- Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>          	        http://openmoko.org/
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