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| author | oharboe <oharboe@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60> | 2008-07-10 06:44:11 +0000 |
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| committer | oharboe <oharboe@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60> | 2008-07-10 06:44:11 +0000 |
| commit | 313547ddd66b3dc7a8f1c6261621d26939d9d524 (patch) | |
| tree | fdfda9f246967fbe47ad0c9fd8043d5e9cbf5bf4 /src/scripting.txt | |
| parent | 92beb99bf75192621a04b8190ea2353ea91f6d6d (diff) | |
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very slight cleanup of flash banks handling.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@782 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60
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diff --git a/src/scripting.txt b/src/scripting.txt index fa7b94c3..059bc85a 100644 --- a/src/scripting.txt +++ b/src/scripting.txt @@ -1,15 +1,5 @@ Plan for hosted scripting support in OpenOCD ============================================ -Jim Tcl support in OpenOCD currently exists as a patch. - -There has been some discussion on the list as to what -purpose scripting support might serve in OpenOCD. - -Also Lua was proposed as a scripting language, but -only Jim Tcl has been forwarded as a patch. - -Tcl is also backwards syntax compatible with OpenOCD -commands. What scripting will not do ========================== @@ -26,6 +16,10 @@ Since end users are not expected to mess with the scripting language, the choice of language is not terribly important to those same end users. +Jim Tcl was chosen as it was easy to integrate, works +great in an embedded environment and Øyvind Harboe +had experience with it. + Uses of scripting ================= Default implementation of procedures in tcl/procedures.tcl. @@ -46,3 +40,15 @@ Default implementation of procedures in tcl/procedures.tcl. and will have no externally visible consequences. Tcl has an advantage in that it's syntax is backwards compatible with the current OpenOCD syntax. +- external scripting. Low level tcl functions will be defined + that return machine readable output. These low level tcl + functions constitute the tcl api. flash_banks is such + a low level tcl proc. "flash banks" is an example of + a command that has human readable output. The human + readable output is expected to change inbetween versions + of OpenOCD. The output from flash_banks may not be + in the preferred form for the client. The client then + has two choices a) parse the output from flash_banks + or b) write a small piece of tcl to output the + flash_banks output to a more suitable form. The latter may + be simpler.
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