Lpc2000

Hello,

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:03, fordp2002 wrote:
> I personally use Linux at home, but I have to use XP at work. I know
> what you mean and it must be frustating to have to use windows at all.
> Have you not thought to ask if somebody else can mantain a windows port ?
>
Actually that's the way I'm considering going. Spen offered to do that, but at 
that time I didn't like the idea of adding these changes.
He already sent me a more recent version of his patch lately, but I haven't 
had time to look into it closely. I want to do the merging myself, but I just 
have to find some time and motivation for it (with lack of motivation I meant 
just the windows native stuff - I'm still working on the OpenOCD every day, 
and I enjoy doing so. More fun things is for example XScale support, among 
others).

> I read your OpenOCD thesis and other documentaion and I found it much
> more complex than I expected. A port to another platform can be
> achieved without a detailed understanding of how it actually works.
>
> The only thing I did not understand is why is was written in c and not
> c++. I noticed in the code that there is quite a bit of use of
> pointers to functions. This is not needed in c++ and it has genuine
> benefits on projects that are ideally written in a very modular way.
>
For one it's a matter of personal habbit, but I also had a technical reason. I 
always wanted to be able to move the code to a small dedicated platform (ARM9 
uC + some RTOS, maybe), and wanted to add as little external dependencies as 
possible.

> It would be a shame if OpenOCD were to die off before it has had
> chance to reach critical mass. Eclipse to me is an inspirational open
> source product that has reached critical mass. The good thing about
> this is that even it is not reliant on particular people to keep it
> moving on.
>
> The combination of Eclispe, GDB and OpenOCD together make a really
> good debugger.
>
> Long may it continue.

I'll keep working on it, and I'll try to add every patch people send me. I 
really like the project, and I'm not going to stop working on it. Again, lack 
of motivation didn't mean the OpenOCD as such.

Regards,

Dominic