Re: [Openocd-development] Automating programming with OpenOCD

[Ø. H. <oyv...@zy...>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ville Voipio <vil...@kp...> wrote:
>
> > OpenOCD stores state in global variables that is set up during startup &
> > modified by commands.
> >
>
>  That is true, and that is very important in multi-client environment.
>
>  But what I am in the need of is just this:
>
>  - OpenOCD as is
>  - no gdb server
>  - telnet replaced by a single fixed console with stdin/stdout/stderr
>
>  Surely, this would only be a simplification? The point is to toss the
> telnet and use the same interface directly. This way OpenOCD would become
> much easier to use from external scripts.

That should be straightforward. I can see why you'd want to toss out telnet,
less to worry about + also, you'd want to define the input/output
syntax a bit more so you
can, programatically, tell whether or not a command failed.

Telnet is for humans(it's actually a kind of a GUI), a tty interface would
be intended for computers and the syntax should be tailored thus.

>
>  So, what I want is that when I invoke OpenOCD, I can then send all commands
> (and get all responses) from the same tty as the OpenOCD is running. As
> happens with all sorts of command line tools.

Of course we'd want to write up a tcl & python example on how to use it
from a script.

>
>  - Ville
>



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