Leon Wagner wrote:
> No, the BDM on the ColdFire is non-intrusive. It does not HALT the CPU and only
> steals an occasional memory cycle to read and write RAM locations. The older
> BDMs (like the CPU32) would FREEZE or HALT the CPU whenever they were performing
> I/O. The new CF ones don't do that (much nicer :)

That wasn't always true...

cvs log SwiftX/Src/ColdFire/Bdm.f
[snip]
revision 1.5
date: 2006/03/28 00:09:53; author: leon; state: Exp; lines: +26 -34
Memory-based XTL parameter passing (no registers, no HALT).

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