Re: [avr-chat] Debugging with AVR ISP Mk II via PDI?

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Mann [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:23 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Joerg Wunsch; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-chat] Debugging with AVR ISP Mk II via PDI?
> 
> 
> On May 27, 2013, at 19:17 , "Weddington, Eric"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > It's for various reasons...
> 
> Usually it's
> 
> a) Want to keep it secret (for whatever reason).
> b) Don't want to take the time to write it up
> c) Don't want to deal with the extra support burden
> d) Want to maintain the freedom to alter without worrying about
> external users.
> 
> But surely, by now, Atmel recognizes the benefit to making your
> products easier to adopt by more people. In this case, you might just
> enable someone to create a new debugger for XMEGA parts.
> 
> I suppose documenting it might also eat into sales of development
> tools, if people can currently talk to the AVR ISP MkII, or the Dragon,
> or JTAG ICE, and those translate some known protocol to PDI. But unless
> those make up the bulk of Atmel's sales, that doesn't seem like a good
> enough reason.

... And we'll just have to leave it at speculation. ;-)

Eric