Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent
Øyvind, I wrote that based purely on briefs that I've read online. I've seen references to TCF using JSON in the transport, but I know nothing beyond that. Unfortunately, I'm not sure my position would allow me to spend work-hours on it, but I may be able to look into it more on my own time. Wouldn't happen very fast, though. Also, I don't think it would be worth doing much until GDB either provides a TCF interface alongside GDB/MI or there is a fork that does. - Alex -Original Message- From: Øyvind Harboe [mailto:oyvind.har...@zylin.com] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:25 AM To: Austin, Alex Cc: openocd-development@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent Hi Alex, thanks for the insight! This is very interesting Do you know what it would take to implement such a server? A gdb server, that OpenOCD has, has as a lot of optional functionality. What's the minimum that we'd have to do to get started? -- Øyvind Harboe Can Zylin Consulting help on your project? US toll free 1-866-980-3434 / International +47 51 87 40 27 http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 ARM11 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
[Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent
The TCF project from Eclipse looks promising: http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TCF Just wondered what thoughts were in OpenOCD becoming a TCF agent? Would this ever likely be an accepted direction within OpenOCD, or would it be better to write an external agent? Martin. ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent
So OpenOCD would have a TCF TCP/IP server that would feed output/input from DCC? Why is code required on the target? -- Øyvind Harboe Can Zylin Consulting help on your project? US toll free 1-866-980-3434 / International +47 51 87 40 27 http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 ARM11 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent
On 12/05/2011 20:22, Øyvind Harboe wrote: So OpenOCD would have a TCF TCP/IP server that would feed output/input from DCC? Why is code required on the target? As I understand it, you can run an agent on the target, or the agent could be like OpenOCD and bridge between the JTAG and TCF connnection. The communication between TCF and the Agent is JSON. Extra services like target discovery etc would make the whole thing very slick. ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent
From what I understand, what this would allow such a stackup as: Component Provides ARM Core JTAG OpenocdTCF (addresses only) GDBTCF (interprets symbol table, handles soft breakpoints) My_rtos_xlator TCF (knows where to find thread state tables) Oprofile TCF (keeps statistics of thread and function runtimes) EclipseGUI with full knowledge of thread state and profiling info You could pull out My_rtos_xlator and still have access to function-specific profiling. You could pull out the oprofile layer if you don't need it. You could write My_rtos_xlator in a platform-agnostic manner with GDB and openocd translating it to support whichever target the rtos is running on. -Original Message- From: openocd-development-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:openocd-development-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Martin Davey Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:08 PM To: Øyvind Harboe Cc: openocd-development@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent On 12/05/2011 20:22, Øyvind Harboe wrote: So OpenOCD would have a TCF TCP/IP server that would feed output/input from DCC? Why is code required on the target? As I understand it, you can run an agent on the target, or the agent could be like OpenOCD and bridge between the JTAG and TCF connnection. The communication between TCF and the Agent is JSON. Extra services like target discovery etc would make the whole thing very slick. ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] OpenOCD becoming an Eclipse TCF Agent
Hi Alex, thanks for the insight! This is very interesting Do you know what it would take to implement such a server? A gdb server, that OpenOCD has, has as a lot of optional functionality. What's the minimum that we'd have to do to get started? -- Øyvind Harboe Can Zylin Consulting help on your project? US toll free 1-866-980-3434 / International +47 51 87 40 27 http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 ARM11 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
