Yes, rom emulators still serve a useful purpose, especially when a brand new board/cpu or ejtag firmware can't communicate to each other properly. Wait for that to get fixed (no), walk to the flash programmer for every new image (tedious), or plug in the rom emulator (30 seconds to change the image). --Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ralf Baechle > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 1:08 PM > To: Joseph Chiu > Cc: Clem Taylor; linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: initial bootstrap and jtag > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:42:07PM -0800, Joseph Chiu wrote: > > > Do people still use ROM emulators? I think the turnaround > time for getting the machine bootstrapped would have been > faster with a ROMulator (at least for the stuff I was doing)... > > It's a while since then but the PromICE has been extremly valuable for > some development a few years ago. A good JTAG probe is more universal > so may be a better investment though. > > Ralf >
