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

[Rick Mann]

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.

-- 
Rick