OpenOCD support for Tiva C - please test and enjoy

Pavel Fertser

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: EK-TM4C123GXL

Hi,

I'd like to announce that support for both Tiva C 123x and 1294 microcontroller families was merged to the current OpenOCD dev version.

This allows you to use just about any popular JTAG or SWD adapter (TI's ICDI, numerous FTDIs including XDSv2, JLink, STLink etc etc) to debug your projects with any modern host OS, provides reach scripting and extension capabilities as well as the usual remote GDB protocol. Installation is easy and straightforward (e.g. on OS X it's just "brew install --head openocd"), and the user community is big and responsive.

Please provide your feedback on the devel mailing list as I'm a bit allergic to web "fora". Your input will allow us to release the next version with better and more robust support for the devices you care about. Specifically, protection statuses on Snowflake might need more testing.

HTH

over 10 years ago

Amit Ashara over 10 years ago

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Hello Pavel,

Thanks for the info. This would be a good add to the Tiva Family of devices. Can you also please send the links for our newbie's so that they can download OpenOCD executable or the files if they wish to compile the same.

Regards

Amit

Pavel Fertser over 10 years ago in reply to Amit Ashara

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Hello Amit,

Gentoo users can install the current dev version with

sudo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" emerge -a =openocd-9999

Homebrew/OS X users with

brew install --HEAD openocd

The others will likely need to

git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code openocd

And then proceed with compiling (usually fairly trivial) from the sources according to the README ( http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/master/tree/README ).

I'm not sure why any users of standard OSes might want to download binaries, but if you're talking about "windows", then I guess the easiest way to get current version is to cross-compile with mingw64, or to build natively with MSYS/MinGW + MinGW-w64 (using the latter for actual compiling is essential as plain MinGW doesn't support C99). OpenOCD project doesn't officially distribute any binaries, so I hope someone from Tiva C community can do the favour for the windows users and provide a package if that's an essential usecase.

Feel free to catch us on IRC: #openocd @ irc.freenode.net .