Is is possible to use sam-ba for Linux (v2.9) with a USB JTAG device (such as the Segger SAM-ICE) or can it be only used via a direct USB connection with board that support such flashing?

I'd like to know that too. An answer would be highly appreciated!

Yes, yes! I'm very interesting too (in my case ULINK2 JTAG adapter from Keil), because my G45 board doesn't support USB/Serial communication with SAM-BA

Hi,

The quick answer is yes to both questions.
I have SAM9M10 EKES and when connecting SAM-BA via USB I have to open the NANDCS JP10 to connect the board.

Now when I use SAM-ICE I can leave the jumper JP10 closed and connect via JTAG.

Now a question for you guys. I'm using Eclipse (Yagarto) with SAM-ICE and I don't seem to see a diffinitive set of instruction on how to load a compiled program into flash memory. I was expecting something highly integrated like AVR Studio but I suspect not.

So the question is; Is there a document out there which provides a tiutorial on this.

Thanks
Graham

This is a quick guide on how to deploy the .NET Micro-Framework to the target using Eclipse and GDB. This might not be directly applicable to your case but you might get a general idea from it.

http://discovertheexperience.blogspot.c ... et_09.html

In the comments of that post is a trackback from another developer blog who did things a little bit differently. That might help too.

I used this tutorial to get an idea as well. If you are using the SAM-ICE then you might want to do the following:
Instead of getting OpenOCD in your External Tools menu, just add the JLink GDB-Server that came with your SAM-ICE (or this package for the Segger JLink ARM which is basically the same thing >> http://www.segger.com/cms/jlink-software.html)

Instead of connecting your GDB Debugger to localhost:3333 (as you would for openOCD) you connect to localhost:2331 and then need to provide the debugger commands such as the basic initialization routines, load, break, etc.

I don't know what your build output looks like. Instead of pointing to a *.axf file as described in the blog about the .NET MF, you might want to point eclipse to the location of your *.elf file or equivalent. Not too sure about that, though.

Just in case (however unlikely) your target is an AT91SAM9162, you can find a GDB intialization script for that here: http://yangchern.blogspot.com/2010/02/a ... cript.html