This doesn't sound very encouraging for the project in general.  :-(

To be honest, I've been holding off adding new features till the base patches 
get merged.   A few others have sent me emails asking me about support and 
status, but I just point them to the patch series on gerrit for them to compile 
on their own.

This is a big hurdle that's preventing others that wish to contribute moving 
forward.

I must admit that I am starting to loose interest if the review drags on and 
who knows someone else might pick it up after me (the base 64bit patch was 
originally submitted in 2013 and picked up by me in 2015).


FWIW, my team members having been relying on Openocd arch64 support for 
bootloader debugging and I've been using it for linux kernel debugging.   Vicky 
Kuo added breakpoint, mmu support with http://openocd.zylin.com/#/c/2523/, and 
of course Peter Mamonov added mips64 support which is also based on the common 
64bit target support

http://openocd.zylin.com/#/c/1200/


David


________________________________
From: Andreas Fritiofson <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:49 PM
To: Andreas Färber
Cc: OpenOCD-devel
Subject: Re: [OpenOCD-devel] 64bit Support - Long Term Plans



On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Andreas Färber 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Am 15.07.2015 um 16:05 schrieb Ellis, Duane:
> Duane> Can somebody explain why the 64bit changes have not yet been merged 
> into the main line?

The obvious answer is: For the same reason that no 32-bit commits have
been merged since the release.

Speculations: Lack of time, lack of maintainers, more testing desired?

Part of the reason is that I have been more or less ignoring OpenOCD for the 
past 6 months, due to lack of time, and no-one else has stepped up and done the 
required work. I guess we're all busy.

I still don't have the time to determine if this or any other patch is ready 
for merging.

/Andreas

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