BDI2000 not good for ARM946?

Hi,

I know this is out of the topic of this mailing list. But I really need some comments on this issue and I know that this probably is the best place to get a quick feedback for BDI2000 since a lot of ppl here use it.

Some people using BDI2000 to bring up ARM946 board have a little complaint that BDI2000 works flakey on their board. (It took them a week to figure out its configuration file and sometimes it just simply doesn't work.)

However my experience on ppc bring-up tells me that BDI2000 works perfectly. So I'm wondering if this is an individual case for ARM bring-up. Or BDI2000 for ARM is not as good as for PPC?

Please share your experience.

Best regards,
-Shawn.

Dear Shawn,

It takes some understanding of the hardware to come up with a working BDI2000 configuration file. And of course the stability of the system BDI2000-target depends on _both_ components, the BDI2000 _and_ the target.

My guess is that these people have little experience and/or flakey target hardware.

We use the BDI2000 on PowerPC, MIPS and ARM. I remember only one case when a specific version of the firmware had problems (and this got replaced by Abatron within a few hours). In all other cases the BDi200 has proved to be absolutely reliable and stable. I see no difference whether on ARM, MIPS or PowerPC.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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