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- Remove style guide from user guide; moved to doxygen manual.
- Replace with improved introduction for developers and packagers.
- Move introductory paragraph about the project under the About page.


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@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ This manual documents edition @value{EDITION} of the Open On-Chip Debugger
@unnumbered About @unnumbered About
@cindex about @cindex about


OpenOCD was created by Dominic Rath as part of a diploma thesis written at the
University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (@uref{http://www.fh-augsburg.de}).
Since that time, the project has grown into an active open-source project,
supported by a diverse community of software and hardware developers from
around the world.

@section What is OpenOCD?

The Open On-Chip Debugger (OpenOCD) aims to provide debugging, The Open On-Chip Debugger (OpenOCD) aims to provide debugging,
in-system programming and boundary-scan testing for embedded target in-system programming and boundary-scan testing for embedded target
devices. devices.
@@ -98,7 +106,7 @@ with the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) compliant taps on your target board.


@b{Dongles:} OpenOCD currently supports many types of hardware dongles: USB @b{Dongles:} OpenOCD currently supports many types of hardware dongles: USB
based, parallel port based, and other standalone boxes that run based, parallel port based, and other standalone boxes that run
OpenOCD internally. See the section titled: @xref{JTAG Hardware Dongles}.
OpenOCD internally. @xref{JTAG Hardware Dongles}.


@b{GDB Debug:} It allows ARM7 (ARM7TDMI and ARM720t), ARM9 (ARM920T, @b{GDB Debug:} It allows ARM7 (ARM7TDMI and ARM720t), ARM9 (ARM920T,
ARM922T, ARM926EJ--S, ARM966E--S), XScale (PXA25x, IXP42x) and ARM922T, ARM926EJ--S, ARM966E--S), XScale (PXA25x, IXP42x) and
@@ -111,58 +119,64 @@ internal flashes (LPC2000, AT91SAM7, STR7x, STR9x, LM3, and
STM32x). Preliminary support for various NAND flash controllers STM32x). Preliminary support for various NAND flash controllers
(LPC3180, Orion, S3C24xx, more) controller is included. (LPC3180, Orion, S3C24xx, more) controller is included.


@section OpenOCD Web Site

The OpenOCD web site provides the latest public news from the community:

@uref{http://openocd.berlios.de/web/}


@node Developers @node Developers
@chapter Developers
@chapter OpenOCD Developer Resources
@cindex developers @cindex developers


OpenOCD was created by Dominic Rath as part of a diploma thesis written at the
University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (@uref{http://www.fh-augsburg.de}).
Others interested in improving the state of free and open debug and testing technology
are welcome to participate.
If you are interested in improving the state of OpenOCD's debugging and
testing support, new contributions will be welcome. Motivated developers
can produce new target, flash or interface drivers, improve the
documentation, as well as more conventional bug fixes and enhancements.


Other developers have contributed support for additional targets and flashes as well
as numerous bugfixes and enhancements. See the AUTHORS file for regular contributors.
The resources in this chapter are available for developers wishing to explore
or expand the OpenOCD source code.


The main OpenOCD web site is available at @uref{http://openocd.berlios.de/web/}.
@section OpenOCD Subversion Repository


@section Coding Style
@cindex Coding Style
The ``Building From Source'' section (@xref{Building}) provides
instructions to retrieve and and build the latest version of the OpenOCD
source code.


The following rules try to describe formatting and naming conventions that should be
followed to make the whole OpenOCD code look more consistent. The ultimate goal of
coding style should be readability, and these rules may be ignored for a particular
(small) piece of code if that makes it more readable.
Developers that want to contribute patches to the OpenOCD system are
@b{strongly} encouraged to base their work off of the most recent trunk
revision. Patches created against older versions may require additional
work from their submitter in order to be updated for newer releases.


@subsection Formatting rules:
@itemize @bullet
@item remove any trailing white space
@item use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
@item displayed TAB width is 4 characters
@item make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
@item do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
@item do not add trailing empty lines to source files
@item do not use C++ style comments (//)
@item lines may be reasonably wide - there's no anachronistic 80 characters limit
@end itemize
@section Doxygen Developer Manual


@subsection Naming rules:
@itemize @bullet
@item identifiers use lower-case letters only
@item identifiers consisting of multiple words use underline characters between consecutive words
@item macros use upper-case letters only
@item structure names shall be appended with '_s'
@item typedefs shall be appended with '_t'
@end itemize
During the development of the 0.2.0 release, the OpenOCD project began
providing a Doxygen reference manual. This document contains more
technical information about the software internals, development
processes, and similar documentation:


@subsection Function calls:
@itemize @bullet
@item function calls have no space between the functions name and the parameter
list: my_func(param1, param2, ...)
@end itemize
@uref{http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/index.html}

This document is a work-in-progress, but contributions would be welcome
to fill in the gaps. All of the source files are provided in-tree,
listed in the Doxyfile configuration in the top of the repository trunk.

@section OpenOCD Developer Mailing List

The OpenOCD Developer Mailing List provides the primary means of
communication between developers:

@uref{https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development}

All drivers developers are enouraged to also subscribe to the list of
SVN commits to keep pace with the ongoing changes:

@uref{https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-svn}


@node Building @node Building
@chapter Building
@cindex building OpenOCD
@chapter Building OpenOCD
@cindex building


@section Pre-Built Tools @section Pre-Built Tools
If you are interested in getting actual work done rather than building If you are interested in getting actual work done rather than building
@@ -181,10 +195,16 @@ You are a @b{PACKAGER} of OpenOCD if you
@item @b{Build packages} i.e.: RPM files, or DEB files for a Linux Distro @item @b{Build packages} i.e.: RPM files, or DEB files for a Linux Distro
@end enumerate @end enumerate


As a @b{PACKAGER} - you are at the top of the food chain. You solve
problems for downstream users. What you fix or solve - solves hundreds
if not thousands of user questions. If something does not work for you
please let us know. That said, would also like you to follow a few
As a @b{PACKAGER}, you will experience first reports of most issues.
When you fix those problems for your users, your solution may help
prevent hundreds (if not thousands) of other questions from other users.

If something does not work for you, please work to inform the OpenOCD
developers know how to improve the system or documentation to avoid
future problems, and follow-up to help us ensure the issue will be fully
resolved in our future releases.

That said, the OpenOCD developers would also like you to follow a few
suggestions: suggestions:


@enumerate @enumerate


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