09:30 <ariss> Hi there! I have a question regarding openocd. not sure if this is the right place to ask, if this is not the right one sorry for the noise and please if possible let me know if I can ask this somewhere else :)

09:30 <ariss>  I have a setup where openocd is runningon a remote host where I have connected my target device. I connect remotely from gdb and I also have a python script to send openocd commands over telnet for debugging (reading/writing memory). I want to use block read/write memory commands i.e load_image, dump_image but to my understanding I need to copy

09:30 <ariss> the binary files from/to the client to/from the remote host where openocd is running. Is there a way I can do this over telnet port connected to openocd?

09:59 <karlp> ariss: I believe you can do that if you use the tcl api port instead of telnet.

10:09 <Haohmaru> so many ports to choose from

10:11 <karlp> gdb, interactive commands, and api port? not really....

10:13 <Haohmaru> your port monitor app turns into a xmas tree

12:53 <ariss> karlp Thanks for the answer! I ll give it a try. I am thinking about creating a file and writing to it word by word the binary data I want to send over. It sounds suboptimal but if this works I can try to optimize it later. if there is any better idea I will be glad to hear it (I am not familiar with tcl)

13:22 <PaulFertser> ariss: hey

13:23 <PaulFertser> ariss: please stay on channel for longer to let discussion happen.

13:23 <PaulFertser> ariss: you say you still have GDB, why not use GDB's facilities to load whatever you need?

13:23 <PaulFertser> ariss: and indeed for scripting the RPC port is supposed to be used rather than telnet.

13:25 <PaulFertser> ariss: if it's binary data just use objcopy to generate ELF from it and then "load" in GDB?

13:26 <PaulFertser> ariss: or if you like Python and you're using GDB anyway you can use Python support in GDB to do it like here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/76323760

13:32 <PaulFertser> ariss: btw, did you mention "load_image" or "flash load_image"? Because if it's the first you can just create a Tcl array and then use "write_memory" command.

14:58 <PaulFertser> There's also GDB "restore" command to directly upload any binary file to a memory location (not flash).

17:48 <Guest96> I am looking at armv8.c/h and I am curious why only ELR_ELx, ESR_ELx, and SPSR_ELx are supported. There are many other registers that are not supported. Is there another way to access those registers that I am not aware of so they are not included? ARMV8_FAR_EL2, ARMV8_AMAIR_EL1, ARMV8_TCR_EL2 are some of the ones I am talking about.