On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:31:05PM +0200, Markus Mayer wrote:
>>> - the latest jimtcl (0.75) slightly changed its API. A patch to adapt
>>> openocd to the new API is attached.
>>
>> Are you sure it's better in the long run to use a separately packaged
>> jimtcl rather than the specific version from the openocd sources? I'm
>> afraid I can see how it can cause issues, e.g. when OpenOCD might rely
>> on some JimTcl fix that wouldn't be officially released yet.
>>
>
> Fedora forbids bundling other library into a package explicitly and I'm  
> quite sure others do as well. Issued with jimtcl should be fixed  
> upstream. Distributions can include upstream patches into their jimtcl  
> package.

I see. I hope it'll be possible for rc2 to be made compatible with the
latest official JimTcl release.

>>> - openocd ships with an udev file (contrib/openocd.udev), but its not
>>> installed into the required udev directory. Is there any reason for this?
>>
>> It's now called 99-openocd.rules, and yes, it's installed to
>> /usr/share/openocd/contrib by default. Do you know of a good way to
>> make autotools copy udev rules files in a distro-specific way?
>>
>
> There is no distribution specific directory for udev rules. Just copy it  
> to /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/.

But that _does_ sound distro-specific. E.g. on my Gentoo the rules
files usually go to /etc/udev/rules.d instead. Can you please provide
any references to the official udev documentation or FHS or something
like that probably?

>>> - openocd ships firmware for the ulink (OpenULINK/ulink_firmware.hex).
>>> What's the license of the firmware? Where can the sources be gatherd
>>> from?
>>
>> Should be in src/jtag/drivers/OpenULINK/src, and it's GPLv2+
>
> thank you for the information. I haven't found it myself.

NP, welcome.

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