Michael Fischer, who's supporting OpenOCD with his Windows installer packages and how-to articles (among other things), has put a new site online for his "Yet Another Gnu ARm TOolchain (YAGARTO)". It provides windows installer packages for OpenOCD, the GNU ARM toolchain and an integrated development environment using Eclipse and the Zylin CDT plugin. What makes YAGARTO special is that it runs completely native on Windows, i.e. it's fully based on MinGW and doesn't require Cygwin.

Among other things, the current code available from SVN (revision 83) unifies the 'ftd2xx' (with FTDI's FTD2XX library) and 'ftdi2232' (with the open-source libftdi) interfaces. The new interface is called 'ft2232', and the library used to access the hardware is selected with the ./configure options --enable-ft2232_ftd2xx and --enable-ft2232_libftdi.

The ft2232_device_desc is only honored if the FTD2XX library is being used. The ft2232_vid_pid setting is used with both libraries, but only on Linux.

Revision 81 fixed several minor problems, and added support for ARM966E based devices like the new STR9 series from ST Microelectronics. This code was contributed by Spencer Oliver, thanks a lot.

Revision 79/80 added two new commands, jtag_ntrst_delay and jtag_nsrst_delay , to accommodate for situations where external or internal reset circuitry might keep a reset signal asserted for some time after the reset signal from the JTAG interface was deasserted. Revision 82 fixed a bug that required the arguments to these commands to be in microseconds, while they were intended to be miliseconds.