[NBLUG/talk] JTAG Anyone?

[Robert P. Thille]

I'm interested in getting into JTAG so I can get an embedded board 
(Ceiva 2 - http://www.rangat.org/rthille/Computer/Ceiva2/ ) that I'm 
interested in getting Linux or NetBSD running on.  The trouble is, I 
can't figure out a way to break into any sort of bootloader over the 
serial port it's got.  So I need JTAG to flash it with a bootloader.

I've looked around and it looks like there are two approaches to JTAG, 
parallel (cheap) and USB (mostly expensive or very expensive).  I did 
find a pretty cheap USB->JTAG adapter which is supposed to work with the 
GNU toolchain. http://www.amontec.com/jtagkey-tiny.shtml  One possible 
problem is they only seem to only support ARM & Xscale procs at this 
time on the jtagkey-tiny.

It's 29 Euro, but since it's coming from Switzerland, the shipping is 
another 27.1 Euro.  So, I'm interested in finding out if anyone else 
wants one and we can split the shipping.  I'll front the money, take the 
risk, etc...

Let me know if you're interested, even if you'd be interested in one of 
their other products that supports MIPS.

Robert

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