OpenOCD on Linux

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Hello to everybody, I’m using OpenOCD on Linux with a Wiggler and it works well. What about the other alternatives that are documented to work well on Windows? For example, I know JTAGKey works on Linux because on their site there are the drivers, but what about Signalyzer, ARM-USB-OCD and others? Anyone who used them on Linux, please post its experience. Thanks in advance,

l3golas

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Hi,

I use OpenOCD + ARM-USB-OCD and it seems to work fine for me…

Cheers,

–David Carne

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All FT2232 based dongles work, and are actually easier to use, because on Linux there’s no need for different drivers for the various VID/PID combinations. Just get the latest version of libftdi or FTDI’s FTD2XX and you should be fine.

All the Wiggler style dongles (‘jtag_interface parport’) work on Linux, as well as Amontec’s JTAG Accelerator, either using direct I/O accesses (requiring root) or using ppdev (/dev/parportN).

The only dongle that wouldn’t work on Linux is the unofficial support for Segger’s J-Link posted to this forum, which is for this reason unlikely to be merged into OpenOCD’s mainline.

Regards,

Dominic

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l3golas:
Hello to everybody, I’m using OpenOCD on Linux with a Wiggler and it works well. What about the other alternatives that are documented to work well on Windows?

l3golas

I like to run linux under VMWare with XP as a host OS. openocd runs fine with an FTDI based JTAG dongle redirected to the VMWare session. This lets me run all the windows only garbage I need, and all the linux stuff I like without too much trouble. It takes a decent machine to do well, but it’s not a bad setup.