Re: [patch v2 0/2]

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Aug 09 2017 - 10:31:51 EST


On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 05:17:45PM +0300, Oleksandr Shamray wrote:
> When a need raise up to use JTAG interface for system's devices
> programming or CPU debugging, it could be done from the external
> JTAG master controller.
>
> For such purpose, usually the user layer
> application implements jtag protocol or using a proprietary
> connection to vendor hardware.
> This method is slow and not generic.
>
> We propose to implement general JTAG interface and infrastructure
> to communicate with user layer application.

Hi Oleksandr

You might find this discussion interesting:

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2017-August/004721.html

You are defining a new ABI here, so linux-abi should be involved in
the discussion of these patches.

Andrew