On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:28 +0530, satheesh paul wrote: > Tayseer, > BDI2000 costs 1,360.00 !!!! That is more than 1 lakh /- !!! Do you guys Sorry but that's the cheapest AFAIK. There are others out there (Lauterbach) which cost 7.000 .- € (but I didn't check recetnly). > know anyother cheap alternates? Or are all the kernel developers using such > high-end stuff? You need the JTAG stuff only if you do real bootloader development on these boards (and not even necessarily then depending on the way you test). If you never touch the bootloader, you will (probably) never need a BDI or similar. So for Kernel development as such, forget the BDI IMHO. Get a board which "supports Linux" (which pretty much every board does). On this you boot the Kernel from the net and mount the root-fs via NFS. Voila. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/