Re: Best microcontroller with Linux development tools

On 2008-03-27, Bob11 <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:41:29 -0500, Bob11 wrote:
Does anyone have any experience, or know of any vendors, of small
microcontroller development tools than run natively on Linux? I'm
looking
at processors in the 8051/AVR/Z8 etc class.
[snip]

Thanks, Mike, to the link for Rowley. They're the only vendor
I've seen so far that actually mentions Linux support for a
debugging/programming JTAG probe. They deserve a good
evaluation.

FWIW, I've never seen anything but positive comments about them
in the MSP430 mailing list. Their prices sure look reasonable,
and supporting Linux wins them points in my book.

And thanks, Neil, for your list of tools you've used. I'm a vi guy myself
:-) and find the vi Makefile cvs/subversion toolchain to be faster for
development than IDEs also. I do like the IDEs for debugging, though,

By "IDE for debugging" do you mean a GUI source-level debugger?
If that's what you're after, then there are a number of GUIs
for gdb that will work with any target supported by gdb. I've
used both the Insight and DDD GUIs to debug embedded stuff
using gdb, though I find gdb's command line interface to be a
lot easier to use. It's been a long time since I've used gdb
-- I don't find debuggers very useful for embedded real-time
stuff anyway.

--
Grant

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