On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:23:31PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: > Hi, > > Taking this opportunity to share the joy of having such a wonderful > tool at hand and expressing my gratitude to the developers :)
I am not saying the opposite, more that I am unable to say what you do. > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:01:01AM +0100, John wrote: > > If asked what would I like for the next release, and I can see why I > > would not be so asked, I would say "easy to build, works out of the > > box, no fighting of config, no having to study hard to see which > > options to enable/disable let alone why". Sorry, but I really am just > > a user of this tool. > > What i can say is that i'm a rather happy user of OpenOCD. Creating > the config was trivial addition of the following two lines: > > source [find interface/arm-usb-ocd.cfg] > source [find target/stm32.cfg] I meant that for me ./configure make did not work and I had to figure out lots of --things then hack various makefiles etc to create anything at all. (And then it did not work for my target and by then I had lost confidence but eventually figured out that it was not my fault but rather that the TCL config for my target was broken - so I posted the fix.) > OpenOCD helped me and my colleages _immensely_ during the last two > years and we had a chance to compare gdb+OpenOCD+Eclipse with other > tools (uVision and similar shit) and that clearly showed that OpenOCD > has an unmatched flexibility and the featureset (of course gdb's > superiority played its role too). It may well be (I've not met uVision and suspect I won't). > Having FreeRTOS-awareness support is a great timesaver too. Good. > > Fortunately I haven't had to rely on OpenOCD and so far just tested it > > and more or less decided "oh well I'll just debug my target using > > printf". (*) > > I am not really spoiled by various debugging aids and i agree > "traditional" ways of debugging are usually "good enough" but i > remember thinking something along the lines "oh my, i'm so lucky to > have JTAG for debugging, it'd be nearly impossible to find this bug > without it" quite a few times already. So i suggest you reconsider :) If I find I can "just build it and it works", quite possibly. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
