On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:04:12 +0200, luca ellero [off-list ref] 
 wrote:

On 31/05/2011 16.39, Christopher Harvey wrote:

quoted

  I'm looking for an ARM board with a cortex a9 mpcore with a good
  solution for jtag debugging under linux.

  I have a beagle and a pandaboard sitting in front of me, but the 
beagle
  only has cortex a8 and the pandboard jtag situation looks pretty 
dismal.
  (You need to buy and download a lot of software). Cost really 
isn't an
  issue, (under 1000$) but good gdb support is critical.

  I need jtag specifically because kgdb doesn't start up soon enough 
for
  me.

  Anybody here doing ARM linux development with jtag?

  thanks,
  -Chris

Hi Christopher,
why not give a look at OpenOCD? Some guys (me included) have sent 
some
patches to support Cortex A9 and Panda. Development version has now
(basic) support for Pandaboard.
Anyway you have to use development version (git clone
git://repo.or.cz/openocd.git) since 0.4.0 stable release hasn't good
support for Cortex A8/A9.
Furthermore, if you use git version you can also contribute to 
improve
cortex-A* support, which is always very welcome ;-)
I'm just about to write an HowTo to explain how to use OpenOCD on 
Panda.
I will publish it on my site soon.

regards
Luca Ellero

 Thanks Luca,
 I find it funny that of all the expensive jtag solutions out there, 
 OpenOCD seems to be the most convenient. I will probably try that 
 direction out. Hopefully I will find the time to learn and help out with 
 OpenOCD if I happen to need features that it doesn't already support.

 -C