Openmoko Debug Board

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You need the debug board to have a serial console and for JTAG. The debug board lets you:

- access the serial console, to get kernel debug messages the moment the respective events occur (or to get the kernel's last words when it crashes hard)

- use JTAG to halt the processor anytime and analyze the system state (this can also be used with the gdb debugger)

- enable write access to the NOR

Serial console and JTAG are very useful (actually, indispensable) for kernel debugging.

See http://wiki.openmoko.org/ for more