> Looking at the code, it appears you must install the giveio driver on > Windows. OpenOCD will ask the driver to allow direct hardware access > for the current process (like the iopl syscall for Linux does). The > newest version for 64 bit Windows can be found here: > https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs/giveio64.zip/ > Yes, that driver is 9 years old, but the 4 years younger readme says > that it has been sucessfully tested on at least one Windows 10 > computer.
Thanks, maybe I find some time to give it a try. > The amt_jtagaccel and gw6012 OpenOCD backends expect the I/O port > address > of the parallel port (usually 0x378, 0x278 or 0x3bc for on-board > ports) > to be configured with the "parport_port" command. The parport backend > uses the "port" command instead. For amt_jtagaccel you need an EPP > capable parallel port. The other two backends use the port in plain > SPP > mode. Both adapters are not available anymore and discontinued by their manufacturer for years now. Amontec is not even a company anymore. I think these can be deprecated and later dropped. Best regards, Marc On Fri, 2024-06-21 at 23:23 +0200, Daniel Glöckner wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 12:40:55AM +0200, Marc Schink wrote: > > To be host I'm suprised that there are still parallel port users > > out > > there. Although the main reason is probably more nostalgia than > > anything else ;) > > I have not yet used OpenOCD with a parallel port, but last month I've > flashed an ATmega using one since I couldn't find my USB programmer. > I do have a genuine Altera and Xilinx parallel port programmer > somewhere > in my collection, though. > > > Anyway, my main problem with the parallel port is Windows. I'm not > > able > > to build a regression test setup for Windows. There is no > > documentation > > on how to set up OpenOCD with a parallel port driver on Windows. > > Looking at the code, it appears you must install the giveio driver on > Windows. OpenOCD will ask the driver to allow direct hardware access > for the current process (like the iopl syscall for Linux does). The > newest version for 64 bit Windows can be found here: > https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs/giveio64.zip/ > Yes, that driver is 9 years old, but the 4 years younger readme says > that it has been sucessfully tested on at least one Windows 10 > computer. > > The amt_jtagaccel and gw6012 OpenOCD backends expect the I/O port > address > of the parallel port (usually 0x378, 0x278 or 0x3bc for on-board > ports) > to be configured with the "parport_port" command. The parport backend > uses the "port" command instead. For amt_jtagaccel you need an EPP > capable parallel port. The other two backends use the port in plain > SPP > mode. > > Best regards, > > Daniel
