Consideration: use an existing svd lib instead of rolling your own.

[hanetzer]

https://github.com/posborne/cmsis-svd
For the sake of deduplicating work. Plus they ship quite a lot of SVDs you can use out of the box.

[bnahill]

That might have been a good idea had this not predated Paul's work by a few years. I support the idea of switching the parser over to something more robust but don't have the time for such an undertaking. I haven't been doing enough microcontroller debugging the last few years to motivate the jump, but am happy to keep this issue open to keep it from falling off the stack altogether.

[hanetzer]

ah, a very valid point. I wasn't aware of the timeline involved between the two projects, so sorry if it sounded
presumptuous. Maybe I'll look into it myself.

[bnahill]

Alright I've started working on this! Paul's library is good, though I don't want to require some 5GB of XML. I'm also working on Python2-friendly type annotations for cmsis-svd to make it usable which I'll try to push back. Hopefully I can wrap this up before getting too busy with something else.

There are bugs in the parser I made and honestly I don't use this enough to fix them, and that's a disservice to everyone using this and finding their specific case isn't well-supported.

[tannewt]

Instead of shipping the xml with the package we could use https://github.com/pyocd/cmsis-pack-manager. It is used by pyocd to manage packs including svd files.

[markrages]

I found the cmsis-svd parser was insufficient for what I needed to implement in https://github.com/markrages/svd_gdb.

I am not proposing my parser as objectively better, but it is more closely aligned to PyCortexMDebug's use case.

Seems like a lot of duplicated effort all round!

[bnahill]

@markrages for sure! We all had our own needs. Someday I'll

I think the cmsis-svd library is sufficient here and there is a cmsis-svd branch which I believe is complete but not yet thoroughly tested because I don't have time for microcontroller things these days. Out of curiosity what is cmsis-svd missing? Maybe there are some details I'm unaware of...

https://github.com/bnahill/PyCortexMDebug/tree/switch-to-cmsis_svd

So far I've tested just playing around with the IO stubbed out to just print the accesses being made and it seems to work as expected, I think dealing with most of the quirks of SVD. I'm not sure if I changed the usage at all when neatening things but it's certainly a lot cleaner than it used to be. I'd appreciate any testing but understand most aren't in the business to test janky code out on the internet. I have a few microcontroller projects in the queue so maybe it'll get some attention again soon.