Add Cortex-A9 with SMP support to OpenOCD
OpenOCD is a JTAG based debugger. It currently has decent Cortex-A8 on OMAP3530 support.
Add support for the A9, a selection of A9 based boards, and SMP.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Not
- Drafter:
- Michael Hope
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trunk
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
-
backlog
- Started by
- Matthew Gretton-Dann
- Completed by
- Matthew Gretton-Dann
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
[2013-08-22] No interest from members not moving to Jira.
Work items:
Investigate current A8 and OMAP3530 support:
Talk with upstream about any existing SMP or A9 work:
Document goals:
Investigate and document two target boards:
Acquire boards:
Abstract current A8 support:
Add Cortex-A9 support:
Work items for phase 2:
Add support for board 1:
Add support for board 2:
Document:
Work items for phase 3:
Add SMP support:
Work items for phase 4:
Add ROM table scanning:
Add halt on reset support:
Add VFPv3/NEON support:
This may need to be split as there's six months worth of work here.
Effort: 6-9M
Tags: community
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
