[Arm-netbook] microSD breakout board, suitable for debugging using tablets.

[Bari Ari]

Great! Another nice find!

Also have a look at:

http://www.tincantools.com/product.php?productid=16134
> Flyswatter is a compact USB to JTAG in-circuit debugger and programmer 
> designed for ARM cores.  It can be used with all ARM processors that 
> are supported by OpenOCD.  It connects via USB to the host PC.  The 
> Flyswatter provides a standard 14-pin JTAG interface as well as a 
> standard RS232 port with support for full modem signals.

$49.95


On 02/08/2012 10:22 AM, Alejandro Martínez wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm new here.
>
> I bought a cheap-o Ainol Novo7Advanced tablet and have been playing 
> with it for a few weeks. Have managed to get a Ubuntu chroot up and 
> running over the Android firmware without much hassle, everything, 
> including X11 over the framebuffer, seems to work except for the 
> touchscreen (the kernel drivers don't seem to report events correctly 
> for the Xorg module to understand them).
>
> Anyway, after some (failed) attempts of making the tablet boot using 
> the SD card as boot (so no Chroot needed), and trying it to show a 
> framebuffer console, became stuck with no output at all from the kernel.
>
> So I've spent a while looking for some way of "breaking out" easily 
> the pins of the MicroSD to something usable without soldering on the 
> tablet (or even opening it) for debugging, with some instructions I 
> found here.
>
> Aaand... I've found it.
> http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9419
>
> It's intended as a "sniffer" device, but it gives me easy access to 
> the MicroSD pins which is what I wanted exactly.
>
> I ordered it with a USB-Serial adapter, I'll keep you informed. I've 
> fiddled around with different tablet firmwares and they all have quite 
> similar hardware (making another tablet's firmware work is just a 
> matter of replacing the kernel and script0.bin).
> If my "invention" works, it could possibly turn any cheap A10 tablet 
> into an interesting debugging device for kernel development apart from 
> a A10 kit, or a working card release.
>
>
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>
> Alejandro Martínez
>
>
>
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