Re: [Openocd-development] Work Area Size/Policy?

2008-11-30 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Regarding your comments about documenting stuff. At some point we're risk drowning the user in information that he can't possibly relate to. If the issues relate to the current state of OpenOCD w.r.t. a problem we'll be fixing in the code in the next 3-6 months, then perhaps it is better to docume

Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD Thread Support

2008-11-30 Thread Pieter Conradie
Hi Ronald, FYI: A while ago I tried to chain watchpoints together, but failed. This is useful when debugging multi-threaded code. See: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/openocd-development/2008-May/002193.html Best regards, Pieter -Original Message- From: Ronald Vanschoren [mailto:[EM

Re: [Openocd-development] Work Area Size/Policy?

2008-11-30 Thread Rick Altherr
On Nov 30, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: duane> What is the required work area size? rick> None. The flash methods Actually the flash methods do need space - otherwise they will not work. That isn't true for at least the Stellaris flash code. It will fall back to hittin

Re: [Openocd-development] Work Area Size/Policy?

2008-11-30 Thread Duane Ellis
duane> What is the required work area size? rick> None. The flash methods Actually the flash methods do need space - otherwise they will not work. Thank you for pointing out the flash - I had forgotten about that. There are two sides to the problem. (A) flash programing - I had forgotte

[Openocd-development] OpenOCD Thread Support

2008-11-30 Thread Ronald Vanschoren
Hi, I've just started using OpenOCD on a Cortex-M3 platform and am looking into thread support for RTOS's. I've seen Øyvind Harboe's post of 5 Nov titled "Support for eCos threads in OpenOCD", but didn't see much replies. So I'm trying again, hoping there are more people on this list that would l

Re: [Openocd-development] Work Area Size/Policy?

2008-11-30 Thread Rick Altherr
On Nov 30, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: What is the required work area size? None. The flash methods attempt to allocate space for the flash algorithm and a data block area. They start with the size needed to contain the whole image and divide that by 2 on failure. If the size

[Openocd-development] Work Area Size/Policy?

2008-11-30 Thread Duane Ellis
What is the required work area size? I know that having a work area and the DCC can give a 5x to 10x download speed improvement. -Duane. Reasons for my question is the following: = For example some chips have lots of ram. Some chips do not have much. What happens when the download goes ov

[Openocd-development] "jtag_device" - command not recognized

2008-11-30 Thread Duane Ellis
I write this as a separate (from my Commit) email hoping it stops some email and help you solve some immediate problems. -Duane. The command: jtag_device IRLEN IRCAPTURE IRMASK IDCODE Has been removed. The "quick fix" is as follows. set _CHIPNAME mychip set _CPUTAPID 0.

[Openocd-development] SVN Version 1194 - Commit Info

2008-11-30 Thread Duane Ellis
For those who do not know - I am a new commit person for OpenOCD. I have just committed a large (in size) but small (in scope) patch. The patch is 300K, I did not attach it. There may be some "bumps" in the road, they should be sorted out *QUICKLY*. If you are reading this and * you are a "p

Re: [Openocd-development] RFC: Upcoming Changes #1

2008-11-30 Thread Carlos Antunes
Duane Ellis wrote: > The simple truth is - the same (target) CHIP is used on MULTIPLE boards, > having a common reusable CHIP config file is a good thing. > > I think it's a good idea. ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.b

Re: [Openocd-development] RFC: Upcoming Changes #1

2008-11-30 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> Comments? Sounds good. :-) -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listin