Re: [avr-gcc-list] Fw: [AVR-Chat] Make Your Own JTAGICE box

[Jason Kyle]

At 09:23 23/04/2003 -0600, E. Weddington wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2003 at 20:33, Jason Kyle wrote:
>
> > >This is pretty darn awesome. Finally something to do with the m163 I
> > >have laying around. Someone going to port this to avrgcc? :-)
> >
> > The code is most likely copyrighted by Atmel so it's not really above
> > board to use it like this, after all the JTAGICE firmware must have
> > some value attached to it because the hardware sure isn't worth 300
> > bucks.
>
> FYI, apparently there's been some removal of certain threads on AVR
> Freaks. The person who said the threads were removed has their email
> host the same as the website that shows making your own JTAG ICE. I'm
> assuming that the threads were concerning this. Remember that the AVR
> Freaks webmaster, Eivind Sivertsen, works for Atmel. So I'm sure that
> they're a little sensitive to this.

Says it all really, when stuff gets removed from a site there's got to be 
something suspect.  avrfreaks.com is sponsored by Atmel but it's news to me 
that the webmaster is an employee.  No such issues with avr1.org of course!



> > A better project would be actually writing the code from
> > scratch and using one of the free licences.
>
> IIRC, that's what the FreeICE project was all about. However, Ted
> Roth said that he hasn't seen much activity on the project recently.
> If anybody wants to help out, that'd be great.

In my spare time, ha ha, I do plan on working towards such goals.  I find 
it very annoying that Atmel consider the debug JTAG instructions "private", 
but do of course note that they are not licenced in any way.

Jason Kyle


> Eric