On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:39:15AM -0700, Zach Welch wrote:
Specifically, I will be adding new support for Cortex-A9 SMP, though I may also make a few improvements to its handling of Cortex-A8 in the process. If you have experience using OpenOCD in these contexts, let me know if you have any specific requests for features or fixes, and I will try to fold them into my plans.
Hello Zach,
Welcome on. We discussed OpenOCD at the last TSC meeting we had, and we have discovered that we don't have a very firm grasp of the gaps in OpenOCD for v7 hardware at the moment. So let me ask a few basic questions and see if that can guide us somewhere:
- Of the platforms OMAP3, OMAP4, mx51 and U8500, does any have OpenOCD support today?
- Are there levels of "support" that OpenOCD can provide for a platform? I.e. is it all or nothing, or is there basic support and what's a step up from that?
- How much of OpenOCD is board-specific? In other words, does specific OpenOCD code (or config) need to be written to support, say, the Beagle versus the Beagle XM versus the IGEPv2?
- Is there an OpenOCD starter doc we can give people that want to try OpenOCD out on their platforms (and report bugs to help provide items for your work queue)?
Thanks,