[fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

[Paul Breneman]

Michael Ring wrote:
> I finished first tests on memory read performance fot jtag probes/pic32, 
> all on my Mac except the raspberry test:
> 
> Olimex TINY-H with openocd:    120 Seconds for 32k of data
> Olimex TINY-H with ejtagproxy: 10 Seconds for 1k of data, I did not have 
> the patience to wait for the transfer of 32k ;-)
> 
> Raspberry PI with openocd in gpiomode: 50 Seconds for 32k of data
> 
> J-Link Edu with openocd: 30 Seconds for 32k of data
> 
> mikroProg from Mikro-E: approx. 8 Seconds for 32k (but no gdbserver and 
> ICD Protocol on windows, only for reference)
> 
> ST-Link2: not yet tested.
> 
> pickit3 on ejtagproxy: not yet tested
> 
> I had high hopes for the Raspberry Pi solution because there's no USB 
> transfer involved, sniff.....
> 
> J-Link performance is not stellar, but will be good enough for me right 
> now.
> 
> If anybody has better results, please feel free to share on how you were 
> able to get better performance.
> 
> Michael
> 
> Am 16.05.13 09:55, schrieb Michael Ring:
>> Nice find, question is why did I not find this link ;-)
>>
>> I etched some testboards yesterday and connected them to my 
>> ARM-USB-TINY, openocd detects the chip just fine but Michel was right, 
>> flash read performance is a mess, it took two minutes to read out the 
>> 32k flash of my pic32mx220 chip, that's pretty slow. I will check if a 
>> j-link or st-link work better, but I do not have high hopes.
>>
>> But perhaps the ejtagproxy or pic32prog can solve this problem, will 
>> keep you posted.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Am 16.05.13 08:53, schrieb Michael Schnell:
>>> On 05/15/2013 12:11 PM, Michael Ring wrote:
>>>> If you find the time to find out how to actually start up & use 
>>>> their gdbserver I will be more than happy to integrate it into 
>>>> lazarus, right now I take what I can get and that seems to be openocd.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe this helps....
>>>
>>> http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/ejtagproxy-opwn-source-gdb-interface-for-pic32-and-mips/ 
>>>
>>>
>>> "EJTAGproxy open source GDB interface for PIC32 and MIPS"
>>>
>>> They say "PIC-KIT3 <https://www.olimex.com/dev/pic-kit3.html> (ICSP) 
>>> andARM-USB-TINY <https://www.olimex.com/dev/arm-usb-tiny.html>(JTAG) 
>>> interfaces are supported."
>>>
>>> -Michael

You might want to try the new BeagleBone Black as it might be better for 
real-time machine control (and boots up in a more standard way) than the 
Raspberry Pi?  A friend of mine put together a lot of this page:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Debian_Wheezy_Linux-Rt_Compile_LinuxCNC