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Behavior of printf through jtag_uart directed to stdout

Dear all, My design uses a NIOS II on ARIA-GX. Briefly it is an AMC (µTCA) board with a Gigabit port (Gigabit MAC and alt2gxb). The board is able to receive some simple commands and returns d...
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Claude_ipnl @ Jul 17 2009, 08:50 AM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23164)</div>

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I&#39;m wondering which is the best way to do, if I want to have access to debugging message only when I connect a external cable.

Perhaps detecting the precense of the cable and the enabling the messages ?

Claude[/b]

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I&#39;d advise using a standard UART instead. The last I checked the jtag_uart code, once a timeout has happened the interface is unusable.

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