Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-02-14 Thread Lino - Andrea
Hi, I was able to obtain the documentation about the cores of the FreeScale PPC microcontrollers. In them a section on the debug unit is reported. PowerPC does not define a debug standard but apparently e200zX cores do, see the following documents. See the “debug” section. http://cache.freescale.

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-25 Thread Lino - Andrea
> If you have lots of spare boards I can take a look at one of them and > the documentation just for curiosity :-) However if you want to have > this implemented with a priority please consider hiring someone > developer from the group willing to do the job or assist you :-) For now, I have not th

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-25 Thread CeDeROM
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Michael Schwingen wrote: > power.org does not manufacture chips - they specify cores. > Manufacturers like Freescale, IBM etc. do make chips - and you need to ask > *them* for debugging specifications, since each implements it differently. > Even if I can get speci

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Schwingen
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:07:01PM +0100, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > Hey Michael. This may be the good starting point to obtain the > documentation as the project claims to be Open Source and there is some > community around it. Thats it, just a hint. You can give it a try, maybe > some nice Open Source

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-24 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Hey Michael. This may be the good starting point to obtain the documentation as the project claims to be Open Source and there is some community around it. Thats it, just a hint. You can give it a try, maybe some nice Open Source PowerPC core is out there... Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ,

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-24 Thread Michael Schwingen
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:11:01AM +0100, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > I am not really interested in these devices, but the Power Project claims > to be open source, so if there is no debug documentation yet available > maybe it is a good idea to request one :-) So you are just throwing us an unspecific U

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-24 Thread Michael Schwingen
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:21:15AM +0100, Lino - Andrea wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > >I would like to work on e300/e500 cores, but the debug interface > >seems to be > >non-documented for practical purposes. > > I am interested to work on ST SPC560B and

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-24 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Lino - Andrea wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> I would like to work on e300/e500 cores, but the debug interface seems to >> be >> non-documented for practical purposes. > > I am interested to work on ST SPC560B and SPC560P

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-24 Thread Lino - Andrea
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > I would like to work on e300/e500 cores, but the debug interface seems to > be > non-documented for practical purposes. I am interested to work on ST SPC560B and SPC560P devices. Assuming that I have all the documentation, you thin

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Schwingen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:00:24PM +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > > If so, then PowerPC debug support isn't suitable for being supported > > by the opensource community. > > How about this one https://www.power.org/ ? :-) Where is the JTAG debug documentation on that site? cu Michael -

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Schwingen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > The PowerPC CPU doesn't really support an open documented standard for > communicating with it's debug hardware does it? No, AFAIK not. There was free documentation for the Motorola MPC860 - at a former employer, we implemented our o

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-23 Thread CeDeROM
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > If so, then PowerPC debug support isn't suitable for being supported > by the opensource community. How about this one https://www.power.org/ ? :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info --

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-23 Thread David Riley
On Jan 23, 2013, at 9:14, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > I haven't been following PowerPC. Are they used in mainstream embedded > MCUs still? Sure are, especially when you need more muscle than an ARM (though they're catching up). They still employ VERY proprietary access methods over JTAG, though, an

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-23 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Lino - Andrea wrote: > Hi, > I am a new OpenOCD developer and I am interested to extend the support in > OpenOCD for PowerPC devices such as ST SPC56x. Is there an open project? > Someone is already work on this porting? The PowerPC CPU doesn't really support an o

[OpenOCD-devel] OpenOCD with PPC architecture

2013-01-23 Thread Lino - Andrea
Hi, I am a new OpenOCD developer and I am interested to extend the support in OpenOCD for PowerPC devices such as ST SPC56x. Is there an open project? Someone is already work on this porting? Thanks in advance Andrea-- M