> They indeed do not feature any MMUs, so threading seems like the logical
> choice from a user's point of view.

OpenOCD now has RTOS threads support. That should offer a lot
of help and examples.

Perhaps you can even come up with some code-reuse or make
your multi-core MMU less DSP's behave like an RTOS :-)

>> This is a sizable amount of work and would require somebody to do it
>> as part of their day-time job I think.
>
> I realize that, but thanks for the warning. ;-)
> However, the only two options I have are starting from scratch, or using
> OpenOCD as a base and adding the required support for threading/1149.7/etc.
> So I guess no matter what I chose, a lot of effort will need to be
> invested...

No kidding.... Implementing a new CPU architecture is a huge
undertaking, even if you were given the actual masks, sample
chips, hw design and architecture for free....


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