> -----Original Message----- > From: openocd-development-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:openocd- > development-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Øyvind Harboe > Sent: zondag 20 september 2009 19:53 > To: openocd-development@lists.berlios.de > Subject: [Openocd-development] A few thoughts on OpenOCD long term goals > > One of my goals w/OpenOCD is that it becomes yet another > thing that hardware vendors have to "check off" on the > GCC toolchain list. Not having OpenOCD support should > be like not having GDB support. > > This is a long way off, but it's something to aspire to.
Just keep pushing. We are looking for a SoC for a new platform and we are basically saying that only devices with OpenOCD support are considered. > It would be nice to have support for other targets than ARM, > and we're doing well w/MIPS, but we really need a significantly > bigger community or direct support from hardware vendors > (the gorillas get things for free, the chimps don't...) to > boast equally broad MIPS support as ARM support. Either > that or ARM support has to reach a point of maturity where > MIPS can start to catch up. Then again ARM is messier I don't know if MIPS is something to give much concern. IMHO MIPS is a dead platform unless the PIC32 is catching on which is unlikely since ARM devices are way ahead. Freescale's Coldfire would be much more interesting. I know Freescale is having a very hard time selling the Coldfire due to lack of Open Source tools support. The price of the devices is right, but the tooling is not. > Eventually I hope that we'll be able to identify some killer > features that closed source solutions just don't offer and > that it will become uneconomical to implement from scratch > for each JTAG debugger. I don't really know what those > features might be though. Some ideas: > - Threads support(e.g. eCos, FreeRTOS, etc. threads) > - Profiling support(??) there is profiling support in OpenOCD > now, but I haven't heard about anyone using it. > - Connect up to other GPL code. We're already connected > to GDB as much as we should be... What else? > - Killer FPGA soft CPU workflow support(not quite sure > what that means yet :-) I think the best feature is that it just works. A lot of software does not have that feature! Nico Coesel _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
