On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 00:02 +0200, Liviu Ionescu wrote: > > ... they did have the opportunity to do better, and did not. > > I don't know why you present Arm semihosting as a disaster. It is not > perfect, but it is functional, and common unit tests use only a small > subset of the calls. > > And there is no 'window of opportunity', if the RISC-V guys will ever > want to reinvent the wheel and come with an official 'RISC-V > semihosting' specs, they can do it at any time, and this will have no > impact on existing devices, everything will continue to work as > before, only the debuggers/emulators will need to be upgraded. > > But the only immediate effect such a move will have is that software > efforts in test frameworks will be increased, to support another > protocol, while the advantages will be minimal.
I agree, which is also why I want to use the same interface for powerpc, it will simply make life easier for everybody. The calls aren't perfect but they do work sufficiently well to be useful and I haven't yet been convinced that it can't be extended if necessary. Cheers, Ben.
