From: zwelch Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 22:37:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update user guide documentation: X-Git-Tag: v0.2.0~615 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0f986903049cc8358dadbea3651f64f1b718fb8;p=openocd Update user guide documentation: - Remove style guide from user guide; moved to doxygen manual. - Replace with improved introduction for developers and packagers. - Move introductory paragraph about the project under the About page. git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@1895 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60 --- diff --git a/doc/openocd.texi b/doc/openocd.texi index 2d400fe8..e4220d3a 100644 --- a/doc/openocd.texi +++ b/doc/openocd.texi @@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ This manual documents edition @value{EDITION} of the Open On-Chip Debugger @unnumbered About @cindex about +OpenOCD was created by Dominic Rath as part of a diploma thesis written at the +University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (@uref{http://www.fh-augsburg.de}). +Since that time, the project has grown into an active open-source project, +supported by a diverse community of software and hardware developers from +around the world. + +@section What is OpenOCD? + The Open On-Chip Debugger (OpenOCD) aims to provide debugging, in-system programming and boundary-scan testing for embedded target devices. @@ -98,7 +106,7 @@ with the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) compliant taps on your target board. @b{Dongles:} OpenOCD currently supports many types of hardware dongles: USB based, parallel port based, and other standalone boxes that run -OpenOCD internally. See the section titled: @xref{JTAG Hardware Dongles}. +OpenOCD internally. @xref{JTAG Hardware Dongles}. @b{GDB Debug:} It allows ARM7 (ARM7TDMI and ARM720t), ARM9 (ARM920T, ARM922T, ARM926EJ--S, ARM966E--S), XScale (PXA25x, IXP42x) and @@ -111,58 +119,64 @@ internal flashes (LPC2000, AT91SAM7, STR7x, STR9x, LM3, and STM32x). Preliminary support for various NAND flash controllers (LPC3180, Orion, S3C24xx, more) controller is included. +@section OpenOCD Web Site + +The OpenOCD web site provides the latest public news from the community: + +@uref{http://openocd.berlios.de/web/} + + @node Developers -@chapter Developers +@chapter OpenOCD Developer Resources @cindex developers -OpenOCD was created by Dominic Rath as part of a diploma thesis written at the -University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (@uref{http://www.fh-augsburg.de}). -Others interested in improving the state of free and open debug and testing technology -are welcome to participate. +If you are interested in improving the state of OpenOCD's debugging and +testing support, new contributions will be welcome. Motivated developers +can produce new target, flash or interface drivers, improve the +documentation, as well as more conventional bug fixes and enhancements. -Other developers have contributed support for additional targets and flashes as well -as numerous bugfixes and enhancements. See the AUTHORS file for regular contributors. +The resources in this chapter are available for developers wishing to explore +or expand the OpenOCD source code. -The main OpenOCD web site is available at @uref{http://openocd.berlios.de/web/}. +@section OpenOCD Subversion Repository -@section Coding Style -@cindex Coding Style +The ``Building From Source'' section (@xref{Building}) provides +instructions to retrieve and and build the latest version of the OpenOCD +source code. -The following rules try to describe formatting and naming conventions that should be -followed to make the whole OpenOCD code look more consistent. The ultimate goal of -coding style should be readability, and these rules may be ignored for a particular -(small) piece of code if that makes it more readable. +Developers that want to contribute patches to the OpenOCD system are +@b{strongly} encouraged to base their work off of the most recent trunk +revision. Patches created against older versions may require additional +work from their submitter in order to be updated for newer releases. -@subsection Formatting rules: -@itemize @bullet -@item remove any trailing white space -@item use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces -@item displayed TAB width is 4 characters -@item make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds -@item do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files -@item do not add trailing empty lines to source files -@item do not use C++ style comments (//) -@item lines may be reasonably wide - there's no anachronistic 80 characters limit -@end itemize +@section Doxygen Developer Manual -@subsection Naming rules: -@itemize @bullet -@item identifiers use lower-case letters only -@item identifiers consisting of multiple words use underline characters between consecutive words -@item macros use upper-case letters only -@item structure names shall be appended with '_s' -@item typedefs shall be appended with '_t' -@end itemize +During the development of the 0.2.0 release, the OpenOCD project began +providing a Doxygen reference manual. This document contains more +technical information about the software internals, development +processes, and similar documentation: -@subsection Function calls: -@itemize @bullet -@item function calls have no space between the functions name and the parameter -list: my_func(param1, param2, ...) -@end itemize +@uref{http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/index.html} + +This document is a work-in-progress, but contributions would be welcome +to fill in the gaps. All of the source files are provided in-tree, +listed in the Doxyfile configuration in the top of the repository trunk. + +@section OpenOCD Developer Mailing List + +The OpenOCD Developer Mailing List provides the primary means of +communication between developers: + + @uref{https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development} + +All drivers developers are enouraged to also subscribe to the list of +SVN commits to keep pace with the ongoing changes: + + @uref{https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-svn} @node Building -@chapter Building -@cindex building OpenOCD +@chapter Building OpenOCD +@cindex building @section Pre-Built Tools If you are interested in getting actual work done rather than building @@ -181,10 +195,16 @@ You are a @b{PACKAGER} of OpenOCD if you @item @b{Build packages} i.e.: RPM files, or DEB files for a Linux Distro @end enumerate -As a @b{PACKAGER} - you are at the top of the food chain. You solve -problems for downstream users. What you fix or solve - solves hundreds -if not thousands of user questions. If something does not work for you -please let us know. That said, would also like you to follow a few +As a @b{PACKAGER}, you will experience first reports of most issues. +When you fix those problems for your users, your solution may help +prevent hundreds (if not thousands) of other questions from other users. + +If something does not work for you, please work to inform the OpenOCD +developers know how to improve the system or documentation to avoid +future problems, and follow-up to help us ensure the issue will be fully +resolved in our future releases. + +That said, the OpenOCD developers would also like you to follow a few suggestions: @enumerate