Re: [Simulavr-devel] fab feature deprecated

[ThomasK]

Hi,

to close (I hope) this discussion: I've analyzed, what's to find in the 
XML files from AVR studio. (ok, I had files from version 6.0, but I 
know, that the change in 6.1 isn't so big)

The XML files in AVR studio are debugger centric, e.g. it contains 
mainly information about memory (address and size) and IO register 
(there address, size and which bits inside). Starting from version 6.1 
there are also a description of available interrupts.

This is one part to describe a controller for simulavr, but the stuff to 
connect peripherals together and to ports is missed, even a information 
about version of a dedicated peripheral isn't inside. So this have to be 
added manually to a configuration file, if we want to get a (whatever 
"mostly" means, this is also part of evolution) mostly complete simulavr 
controller.

With that, what's easier? What's less erroneous? What's better to 
maintain? XML configuration (and on build time!) generate controller or 
hard-coded c++-source files?

I like the idea to generate the most controller from a configuration 
(maybe as first shot to integrate a new controller to simulavr) on build 
time. (that was also the way, Onno implemented this!) But in the moment 
we haven't good configuration sources - and to add/generate all by hand 
is PITA. (and maybe a source of many new bugs)

So I'll remove it but set a tag (like for libbfd/libiberty) to mark the 
point where this is removed. (or the point, where this was in the last time)

cu, Thomas


Am 01.03.2014 20:13, schrieb Markus Hitter:
> Am 01.03.2014 19:29, schrieb Michael Hennebry:
> > Duplicating all the timer data for atmega48s,
> > '88s, '168s and 328s would be a bad thing.
>
> Uhm. I think we talk here not about the stuff inside the AVR but how
> it's connected to virtual devices.
>
>
> Markus