[OpenOCD-devel] how much of current openocd code base is truly deprecated?

2014-01-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ode, at some point, one has to bite the bullet and throw stuff away. and it just means less code for me to read. :-) so ... thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANAD

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] is it true that jtag taps are no longer accessible by number?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and ARM11 support doc/openocd.texi:At this writing, September 2009, there are no Tcl utility that are definitely dated. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] couple aesthetic questions about User's Guide

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Spencer Oliver wrote: > On 12 January 2014 13:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > on this page: > > > > http://openocd.sourceforge.net/doc/html/Tcl-Scripting-API.html#Tcl-Scripting-API > > > > the very first section is clearly incorre

[OpenOCD-devel] couple aesthetic questions about User's Guide

2014-01-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
here any other items missing from that list? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

[OpenOCD-devel] are "target count" and "target number" cmds ready to be removed?

2014-01-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
anyone thinks those are worth hanging onto. thoughts? i submitted the patch only because the user guide claimed that these would be removed "shortly after August 2010". rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] some (admittedly newbie) questions about "flash" commands

2014-01-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Spencer Oliver wrote: > On 10/01/14 17:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >next, i can also see, in the source file src/flash/nor/tcl.c, > > the definition of the main flash commands at the bottom, and > > higher up in t

[OpenOCD-devel] some (admittedly newbie) questions about "flash" commands

2014-01-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
- why doesn't that just say that i have no flash? why suggest i need more arguments? am i misreading something? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse

[OpenOCD-devel] is it true that jtag taps are no longer accessible by number?

2014-01-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t tip even relevant anymore? can i add its removal to my next proofreading patch? thoughts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] UG pedantry: it seems like setting '.usage = ""' screws up formatting

2014-01-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Spencer Oliver wrote: > On 9 January 2014 10:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day > >> wrote: > >> my one concern is why any

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] UG pedantry: it seems like setting '.usage = ""' screws up formatting

2014-01-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > my one concern is why anyone thinks it's *necessary* to > assign an empty string to "usage" > > I didn't get that either but it actually make

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] UG pedantry: it seems like setting '.usage = ""' screws up formatting

2014-01-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
> http://openocd.zylin.com/1858 excellent, thanks. more patches coming tomorrow ... rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: ht

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] UG pedantry: it seems like setting '.usage = ""' screws up formatting

2014-01-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Spencer Oliver wrote: > On 08/01/14 18:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >>again, apologies for my nitpicky pedantry, but it appears that > >> defining openocd commands and su

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] UG pedantry: it seems like setting '.usage = ""' screws up formatting

2014-01-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > again, apologies for my nitpicky pedantry, but it appears that > defining openocd commands and subcommands with empty usage, as in: > > .usage = "", > > screws up the formatting when you run "usage" over a

[OpenOCD-devel] UG pedantry: it seems like setting '.usage = ""' screws up formatting

2014-01-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e [num_bits value]* ['-endstate' state_name] jtag flush_count jtag init jtag names .. snip .. or am i just doing something wrong, say with telnet settings? thanks. rday -- Ro

[OpenOCD-devel] is there some reason "tcl_port" won't even *report* port after configuration?

2014-01-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
o that. is there something special about tcl_port that it can't even be run after configuration to show the port number? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OpenOCD-devel] are variables still not carried across scripts?

2014-01-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ed in a later script." given the age of that note, is it still accurate? that would seem to be a fairly significant shortcoming. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OpenOCD-devel] current UG still suggests devs submit patches to this mailing list

2014-01-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
elopers section 1.3, "Discuss and submit patches to this list." as i have already learned, patches don't go to the list anymore so someone might want to rephrase that. :-) rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] User's Guide is unclear on the necessity of a udev file

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e supposed to do about it. i think a little more detail there wouldn't hurt. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] User's Guide is unclear on the necessity of a udev file

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > in chapter 4 of the user's guide: > > > > http://openocd.sourceforge.net/doc/html/Running.html#Running > > > > one reads: > > &g

[OpenOCD-devel] User's Guide is unclear on the necessity of a udev file

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
============= Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] [PATCH] OpenOCD User's Guide, various typos and grammar fixes

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > Rob > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > A collection of fixes to the User's Guide through the first three > > chapters. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day > >

[OpenOCD-devel] [PATCH] OpenOCD User's Guide, various typos and grammar fixes

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
A collection of fixes to the User's Guide through the first three chapters. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- hope this is appropriate, to submit manual fixes to the mailing list in this format. i have a long history as an editor/proofreader so i might as well do something useful

[OpenOCD-devel] [newbie alert] difference between "--enable-ftdi" and "--enable-ft2232-libftdi"?

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, if i happen to notice an "ftdi" version of a config file, is that to be taken as preferred over the older file? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: