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Remove annoying end-of-line whitespace from doc/* files.
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@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ high-level interface to OpenOCD, because they only had two choices:
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- the ablity to write a complex internal commands: native 'commands'
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inside of OpenOCD was complicated.
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Fundamentally, the basic problem with both of those would be solved
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Fundamentally, the basic problem with both of those would be solved
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with a script language:
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-# <b>Internal</b>: simple, small, and self-contained.
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-# <b>Cross Language</b>: script friendly front-end
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-# <b>Cross Host</b>: GUI Host interface
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-# <b>Cross Debugger</b>: GUI-like interface
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What follows hopefully shows how the plans to solve these problems
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materialized and help to explain the grand roadmap plan.
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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ file, allowing OpenOCD to avoid the spider web of dependent packages.
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The TCL Server port was added in mid-2008. With embedded TCL, we can
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write scripts internally to help things, or we can write "C" code that
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interfaces well with TCL.
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interfaces well with TCL.
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From there, the developers wanted to create an external front-end that
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would be @a very usable and that that @a any language could utilize,
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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ terse, simple ASCII protocols that are emensely parsable by a script.
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Thus, the TCL server -- a 'machine' type socket interface -- was added
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with the hope was it would output simple "name-value" pair type
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data. At the time, simple name/value pairs seemed reasonably easier to
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do at the time, though Maybe it should output JSON;
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do at the time, though Maybe it should output JSON;
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See here:
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@@ -101,11 +101,11 @@ How do we solve that problem?
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For example, Cygwin can be painful, Cygwin GUI packages want X11
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to be present, crossing the barrier between MinGW and Cygwin is
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painful, let alone getting the GUI front end to work on MacOS, and
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Linux, yuck yuck yuck. Painful. very very painful.
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Linux, yuck yuck yuck. Painful. very very painful.
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What works easier and is less work is what is already present in every
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platform? The answer: A web browser. In other words, OpenOCD could
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serve out embedded web pages via "localhost" to your browser.
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serve out embedded web pages via "localhost" to your browser.
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Long before OpenOCD had a TCL command line, Zylin AS built their ZY1000
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devince with a built-in HTTP server. Later, they were willing to both
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@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ the Socket Approach is used.
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During 2008, Duane Ellis created some TCL scripts to display peripheral
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register contents. For example, look at the sam7 TCL scripts, and the
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stm32 TCL scripts. The hope was others would create more.
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stm32 TCL scripts. The hope was others would create more.
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A good example of this is display/view the peripheral registers on
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@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ One reason might be, this adds one more host side requirement to make
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use of the feature. In other words, one could write a Python/TK
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front-end, but it is only useable if you have Python/TK installed.
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Maybe this can be done via Ecllipse, but not all developers use Ecplise.
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Many devlopers use Emacs (possibly with GUD mode) or vim and will not
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Many devlopers use Emacs (possibly with GUD mode) or vim and will not
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accept such an interface. The next developer reading this might be
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using Insight (GDB-TK) - and somebody else - DDD..
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