gnupic: Re: [gnupic] gputils development
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] gputils development
From:
"Xiaofan Chen" ####@####.####
Date:
16 Nov 2008 10:19:24 -0000
Message-Id: <a276da400811160219ge6f22c4m998fdad19de848e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Vaclav Peroutka ####@####.#### wrote:
>> Piklab is not moving.
> I never used it
It is a nice IDE and supported quite some compilers and programmers. It
has also limited support of ICD 2 debugging.
http://piklab.sourceforge.net/index.php
>> pk2cmd works fine.
> That is true. But I really miss chip autodetection mechanism
> similar to Windows' PicKit2 programmer. And I do not know how
> to show revision of the PIC. Maybe nice-to-have: automatically
> show ID and revision of the target PIC every time pk2cmd is run.
Future pk2 from Jeff Post may have features.
On the other hand, you can put your feature request for pk2cmd
in this thread. The developer is very responsive.
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=260540
>> Still no good debugger support.
> That is definitely true. Does ANY debugger for PIC on Linux
> exist (even some bad debugger) ? Support of PicKit2 debugger will be really cool.
>
That is the most difficult task as Microchip does not want
to open the debugging protocol.
Xiaofan
