Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: openocd-development-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:openocd-development-boun...@lists.berlios.de] Namens Strontium Verzonden: maandag 18 mei 2009 4:06 Aan: Xiaofan Chen CC: openocd-development@lists.berlios.de Onderwerp: Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status This is wrong. ICSP is Microchip's proprietory protocol for programming and debugging. The ICSP module is independent from the EJTAG module in PIC32. You can read Chapter 33 of the PIC32MX Family Manual for more information. I didn't make it up. I read it. PIC32MX Flash Programming Specification 61145D.pdf : Section 5: EJTAG is designed for debugging. However that same functionality can be used to allow programming. PIC do not need to re-specify EJTAG, as that is available from MIPS. I have found no suggestion that the PIC32 does not implement a compliant EJTAG core, and as ICSP is just de-multiplexed into 4 wire jtag internally, there is no reason why EJTAG operations will not operate as expected over ICSP. There are lots of MIPS chips that have an EJTAG core. An EJTAG implementation in OpenOCD would be awesome. PIC32 is a nice cheap platform to develop and test this with. Gentlemen, AFAIK EJTAG is already implemented in OpenOCD (I'm using it for another MIPS based SOC to program external flash). I just don't know how complete it is in respect to debugging/single stepping. The flash programming routines for PIC32 are also available in OpenOCD. So I guess everything is available in OpenOCD to program a PIC32. Slighty off-topic: I think the MIPS GCC compiler from Codesourcery can be used for PIC32 straight away. It is based on GCC 4.x (not the old 3.x GCC), has newlib support and isn't crippled! The C library from mspgcc (GCC for TI's MSP430 series) is a usefull replacement for newlib because it is really really small. I had little problems compiling it for ARM. Nico Coesel ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Nico Coesel ncoe...@dealogic.nl wrote: Gentlemen, AFAIK EJTAG is already implemented in OpenOCD (I'm using it for another MIPS based SOC to program external flash). I just don't know how complete it is in respect to debugging/single stepping. The flash programming routines for PIC32 are also available in OpenOCD. So I guess everything is available in OpenOCD to program a PIC32. As far as I know, the chip erase is not implemented/working for flashing the PIC32 according to the mailing list archive. So it might be barely working. I do not know the status of debugging. From: John McCarthy jg...@magma.ca Date: Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM Subject: [Openocd-development] pic32mx flash fixups and speedups To: OpenOCD Development Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de I found my problems with writing boot flash and optimized single 32bit word read/writes to speed things up a bit. I also added support for writing flash using the pgm_row command to greatly speed up programming. So now all flash can be erased and/or programmed. Still no chip_erase command and data transfers to/from the target are still slow but it is usable. I will need to make a connector to test J-link with my Explorer 16 in the future. Right now I am not really using PIC32 but more on USB PIC24. And I will need to learn to use OpenOCD with LPC-2148 first. Slighty off-topic: I think the MIPS GCC compiler from Codesourcery can be used for PIC32 straight away. It is based on GCC 4.x (not the old 3.x GCC), has newlib support and isn't crippled! The C library from mspgcc (GCC for TI's MSP430 series) is a usefull replacement for newlib because it is really really small. I had little problems compiling it for ARM. The Microchip C32 compiler is not really crippled but the libraries are as far as I know. http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=292995 Since then, Microchip has moved the C32 sourcecodes and build scripts to Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/microchipopen/ -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
Gentlemen, AFAIK EJTAG is already implemented in OpenOCD (I'm using it for another MIPS based SOC to program external flash). I just don't know how complete it is in respect to debugging/single stepping. The flash programming routines for PIC32 are also available in OpenOCD. So I guess everything is available in OpenOCD to program a PIC32. As far as I know, the chip erase is not implemented/working for flashing the PIC32 according to the mailing list archive. So it might be barely working. I do not know the status of debugging. With regards to pic32 debugging most of the work for the ejtag was based on the pic32. All basic functions within gdb should be working, including software/hardware breakpoints. Having said that i have not tried svn head lately with the pic32. I have a couple of patches to finish off, and complete the work on the run_algorithm. At the moment i am struggling to find any time to spend on openocd, work is very busy. Once the run_algorithm is added the flash programming should speed up, my next step was to look at using the ejtag fast_data area. Cheers Spen ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
Xiaofan Chen a écrit : As far as I know, the chip erase is not implemented/working for flashing the PIC32 according to the mailing list archive. So it might be barely working. I do not know the status of debugging. The mips debugger should work with it but you need some way to flash the program. I am busy working on the programmer. When I get something working I will submit it as well as my debugger and eclipse support. Slighty off-topic: I think the MIPS GCC compiler from Codesourcery can be used for PIC32 straight away. It is based on GCC 4.x (not the old 3.x GCC), has newlib support and isn't crippled! The C library from mspgcc (GCC for TI's MSP430 series) is a usefull replacement for newlib because it is really really small. I had little problems compiling it for ARM. The Microchip C32 compiler is not really crippled but the libraries are as far as I know. http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=292995 Since then, Microchip has moved the C32 sourcecodes and build scripts to Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/microchipopen/ I have created some binaries for SuSE 11.1 and Fedora 9 based on the sourceforge. I have made a debugger for mips but haven't put it on my web site. I am waiting to get my openocd implementation and need to test the debugger before I release it. The gcc that I have is missing newlib which I don't use anyhow, I don't like that bloated crap. Michel -- Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking? then it's time to upgrade to Linux. http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
2009/5/19 Michel Catudal michelcatu...@gmail.com: The mips debugger should work with it but you need some way to flash the program. I am busy working on the programmer. When I get something working I will submit it as well as my debugger and eclipse support. That would be great. I have the PICKit 2 which works under Linux/Windows for programming PIC32. So I can probably use that for verifying when you finish. The first thing for me to do is to make a connector for my Explorer 16 board since the JTAG connector is not the same as J-Link I have. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
Xiaofan Chen a écrit : 2009/5/5 Michel Catudal michelcatu...@gmail.com: A project I am working on is to make a programmer for the PIC32 on SuSE Linux. I am looking into implementing the use of the Programming Excecutive in OpenOCD. I have read the documentation from Microchip and it seems straight forward, the OpenOCD implementation is not that clear though. Many important commands are not implemented. Nice project. What is the Jtag tool you are using? And what is the exact status of OpenOCD with PIC32 in terms of debugging and programming? None yet but I will use olimex tiny jtag device. I will need to make a little adapter for it since the connector doesn't have the same pinout. At this point I am just studying the subject. According to the Microchip flash programming documentation, the best approach would be to use the Programming Executive. The programming executive is available as part of the programmer that Microchip has released the source. Obviously I can't tag that with the source of OpenOCD but will compile it in to make the binary. The key is not to violate either the GPL or Microchip's licence. For programming, you can probably use the US$35 PICkit 2 and pk2cmd. But there is no debugging support with PICkit 2 for PIC32. pk2cmd's source codes are also available. http://www.microchip.com/pickit2 I saw that and may purchase it if there is support for Linux as I don't have any windows to work with at home. I use windows at work but I don't want to see that crap on my own computer. It would be great that openocd can work with PIC32 using JTAG. I think Real ICE, ICD 2 and ICD 3 do not use JTAG for debugging PIC32. I am aware of that, that is why I think that it would be easier for debugging when we get PIC32 supported. Last time Spen posted some news on the Microchip Forum. http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=346142 Since then, it is now quite easy to build gcc toolchain for PIC32 (newlib not ported), pk2cmd also supports PIC32 programming now. So openocd will help a lot. And according to the mailing list, John McCarthy has got flashing partially working. Partially is the key. He can't erase the whole thing so that makes it useless for now. As I look at the code I see that most of the code is commented out so I assumed that it is not working code. That was the reason I asked on this newsletter to see if there is more work done that appears to be. Michel -- Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking? then it's time to upgrade to Linux. http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
2009/5/18 Michel Catudal michelcatu...@gmail.com: For programming, you can probably use the US$35 PICkit 2 and pk2cmd. But there is no debugging support with PICkit 2 for PIC32. pk2cmd's source codes are also available. http://www.microchip.com/pickit2 I saw that and may purchase it if there is support for Linux as I don't have any windows to work with at home. I use windows at work but I don't want to see that crap on my own computer. Yes pk2cmd works under Linux and Mac OS X along with Windows. Last time I was also able to make it work under FreeBSD with the beta USB stack from HPS. You can download pk2cmd source from the above link. We also have a mailing list to support it. http://groups.google.com/group/pickit-devel -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
It would be great that openocd can work with PIC32 using JTAG. I think Real ICE, ICD 2 and ICD 3 do not use JTAG for debugging PIC32. I am aware of that, that is why I think that it would be easier for debugging when we get PIC32 supported. Pic32 has 2 debug interfaces. 4 Wire JTAG. And a pin count compressed version of Jtag which is serialised over 2 wires (ICSP). The protocol is the same as JTAG, the electrical interface is the only thing that differs. 2 wire mode should be able to be driven using a FT2232 type device, in a similar fashion to I2C (Tie TDI and TDO together). ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
On Sunday 17 May 2009, Strontium wrote: Pic32 has 2 debug interfaces. 4 Wire JTAG. And a pin count compressed version of Jtag which is serialised over 2 wires (ICSP). The protocol is the same as JTAG, the electrical interface is the only thing that differs. 2 wire mode should be able to be driven using a FT2232 type device, in a similar fashion to I2C (Tie TDI and TDO together). Is that 2-wire mode the same one that the JTAG folk have been working with, or is it specific to Microchip? Do you know? Nexus, for example, has both 2-wire and 4-wire/JTAG flavors. Eventually one might expect OpenOCD to support that standard 2-wire interface. ISTR that one configuration can drive it directly from standard JTAG connectors. ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, David Brownell davi...@pacbell.net wrote: On Sunday 17 May 2009, Strontium wrote: Pic32 has 2 debug interfaces. 4 Wire JTAG. And a pin count compressed version of Jtag which is serialised over 2 wires (ICSP). The protocol is the same as JTAG, the electrical interface is the only thing that differs. 2 wire mode should be able to be driven using a FT2232 type device, in a similar fashion to I2C (Tie TDI and TDO together). This is wrong. ICSP is Microchip's proprietory protocol for programming and debugging. The ICSP module is independent from the EJTAG module in PIC32. You can read Chapter 33 of the PIC32MX Family Manual for more information. The ICSP debugging protocol is kept secret by Microchip and Microchip does not want to released to public. NDA access might be possible for certain 3rd party. The ICSP programming protocol is open to the public through the programming specification. To use ICD, an external system that supports ICD must load a debugger executive program into the microcontroller. This is automatically handled by many debugger tools, such as the MPLAB IDE. For PIC32MX devices, the program is loaded into the last page of the Boot Flash memory space. When not debugging, the application is free to use the last page of Boot Flash Memory. PIC32MX ICSP supports standard debugging functions including memory and register viewing and modification. Breakpoints can be set and the program execution may be stopped or started. In addition to these functions registers or memory contents can be viewed and modified while the CPU is running. The debug executive hex files are available from MPLAB installation. Microchip's tools like Real ICE, ICD 3, ICD 2 do not use EJTAG. But JTAG support is available from 3rd party. http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGEnodeId=2602 Is that 2-wire mode the same one that the JTAG folk have been working with, or is it specific to Microchip? Do you know? As answered before, the 2-wire ICSP is not JTAG and the only way to know it is through reverse engineering. The only project I know of is the Piklab project which tries to support ICSP debugging with ICD 2. Anyway, to openocd, it is possible to support JTAG debugging/programming. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Re: [Openocd-development] PIC32 openocd status
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Strontium strnty...@gmail.com wrote: This is wrong. ICSP is Microchip's proprietory protocol for programming and debugging. The ICSP module is independent from the EJTAG module in PIC32. You can read Chapter 33 of the PIC32MX Family Manual for more information. I didn't make it up. I read it. PIC32MX Flash Programming Specification 61145D.pdf : Plus PIC32MX talks about debugging using EJTAG. EJTAG is designed for debugging. However that same functionality can be used to allow programming. PIC do not need to re-specify EJTAG, as that is available from MIPS. I have found no suggestion that the PIC32 does not implement a compliant EJTAG core, and as ICSP is just de-multiplexed into 4 wire jtag internally, there is no reason why EJTAG operations will not operate as expected over ICSP. PIC32MX supports EJTAG, no doubt about it. I am saying the ICSP module is different from the EJTAG. I am thinking that the ICSP programming and EJTAG programming interface may indeed share the same protocol internally as per the programming specification. But I am 100% sure that ICSP debugging is different from the EJTAG debugging. And I am also 100% sure that existing Microchip debuggers for PIC32 (ICD 2, ICD 3 and Real ICE) do not speak EJTAg for debugging. Example: http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=414877 You have to disable JTAG port if using MPLAB ICD 2/3 and Real ICE for debugging since they use ICSP debugging. Microchip PIC32 starter kit and PIC32 USB satrter kit do use JTAG for debugging. Real ICE also has the trace function with an add-on. There are lots of MIPS chips that have an EJTAG core. An EJTAG implementation in OpenOCD would be awesome. PIC32 is a nice cheap platform to develop and test this with. I agree with this one. As I mentioned before, it would be good for OpenOCD to support EJTAG of PIC32MX. 3rd parties already offers this possibility now (Ashling, Macraigor Systems, and maybe Green Hill). And the two starter kits also offers JTAG debugging within MPLAB. So it is definitely possible. Actually I think it is already partially supported by Openocd according to Spen. http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=346142 Since ICSP debugging protocol is closed, it is very difficult to support it. So the only choice for debugging is EJTAG. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com ___ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
