[chbot] ARM boards

[Simon Chester]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz>wrote:
>
>
> Not quite, but close. The current boards have an LPC1769, the first
> versions were LPC1114. All the same price, so you might as well get the
> big one (and stock of the older ones is running out).
>
I meant the formerly top secret chip on the JTAG debugger, not the main
MCU: http://ics.nxp.com/lpcxpresso/images/lpc-link.jpg


>
> > Also, why would throw away the JTAG debugger?
>
> The emphasis here is on paperweight, not JTAG. Why would you *NOT* throw
> out a piece of proprietary silicon whos only purpose is to make sure you
> pay (that's why it has the big encryption chip) and which doesn't work
> properly on Linux even after you pay the US$1k, with all the other parts
> of the toolchain being open source, when you can buy a decent JTAG
> adapter for a fraction of the price that also works with open source
> software?

Ahh, okay. That would be annoying.

Simon
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