EJTAG on FreeBSD developer's notebook

More on OpenOCD and MIPS/EJTAG

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:36:00 +0000

Well, I was overly optimistic. OpenOCD can halt CPU, reset, examine registers and perform software breakpoints. Trying to figure out what’s wrong with EJTAG support I skimmed the code and the state of it is, well, poor. Current implementation assumes that target is of the same endianness as host. That’s why number of HW breakpoints/watchpoints was detected wrong. But even fixing (endianness and breakpoints) and implementing(watchpoints) in hack’n’slash mode didn’t help. I still can’t get bp/wp to work. But I’ll definitely try. May be next weekend.

JTAG, OpenOCD & FreeBSD

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:51:00 +0000

As it was mentioned earlier now I have new cool toy to play with. Flyswatter JTAG with MIPS14 adapter. Though Tin Can Tools kindly warned me that OpenOCD did not support EJTAG/MIPS I decided to order it and it turned to be a good deal. Why? Because there is EJTAG/MIPS support for OpenOCD as of 0.1.0. Moreover it works really nice with FreeBSD port of libftdi. So all I had to do was to make devel/openocd port and tweak some configs. And that’s it. Stock gdb for MIPS is not ready yet, but one can attach, examine registers, single step using telnet interface to daemon: