> Presently, I would like to hear about the perceived status > of Cortex-A8,

It gets through OMAP3 bringup.  The ROM table
scanning embeds various assumptions; see the
comments in the ARM ADI_V5.c file.  I'm not sure
whether it's good to assume DAP 0 is used, as one
of the examples, of which MEM-AP to use.  The MX51
is a bit different than OMAP.  I don't know
 about other chips using A8 cores... or, A9.


> as one of my initial goals will be to "validate" that
> support. If you
> are using OpenOCD on a Cortex-A8 platform, what problems do
> you face?
> What features still need work? And contributors of this
> support: are
> there any horrible blemishes remaining in this code?

I've tried to leave comments in the code re any
open issues I observed.  Historically, the A8 code
evolved from the M3 code, at least for the ROM table
scanning (not debug).

The v7a (Cortex-A) debug support is ISTR not all
there, but it's not too bad.  ARM did good things
by having v6 and v7a use the same model (DPM), so
what OpenOCD needs to do is jut fill in various
missing bits.  Again, read code comments.

Also, cross-check against the ARM-v7AR TRM.


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