On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Dominic Rath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008 20:15:38 you wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Dominic Rath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi list,
>> >
>> > while working with the OpenOCD's telnet interface for a bit I got several
>> > of these messages:
>> >
>> > keep_alive() was not invoked in the 1000ms timelimit. GDB alive packet
>> > not sent! (1258)
>> >
>> > I had the jtag_speed set to a very high value (1400), because the target
>> > is an ARM926EJ-S core running at the 32kHz slow clock.
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to limit that warning to GDB connections?
>>
>> The problem is that we need to catch & fix these problems.
>
> I fully agree with you here - take it as a bug report: even the most simple
> JTAG operation (halt in my case) could possibly take several seconds if the
> target is running from a very slow clock.
>
>> Even if it works for you in a telnet session, it will break when
>> doing the same from GDB.
>>
>> Perhaps it should be prefixed with "BUG:" ?
>
> I think so. To me, the warning suggested there was something wrong with my
> setup. BUG makes it clear that this is something in the OpenOCD that needs to
> be fixed. In that case it's of course fine to keep the message enabled on the
> telnet interface, too.

Committed.

I've found that these sort of timeout problems *really* confuse users.

They think there is something wrong with the connection to the GDB server
and are looking in all the wrong places for a solution.

>
> Regards,
>
> Dominic
>



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Øyvind Harboe
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ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex
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