Is there a porting guide/documentation?

[EdwinFairchild]

I would like to use blackmagic debug with Cortex M based microcontrollers from Analog devices / Maxim Integrated. I have skimmed the article found here and I am wondering if that all it takes? Not that is understood everything but im just asking if I should accomplish everything there would I then have new supported device or is there more to that unfinished article.

Also would be nice to enable Github Discussions for this repo, since this is not really and issue but rather a question open for discussion.

Thanks.

[dragonmux]

We'll talk with Esden re GH Discussions - that's a fair point.

Regarding the issue at hand, that article is severely outdated now.. it will serve as a decent basis still but you will need to add your new probing routine to target_probe.c and target_probe.h as well and insert a suitable call after the existing routines in cortexm.c (the block in cortexm_probe started at line 415)

For when v1.9 is looking more complete, we will add this to our roster of documentation-related issues that need sorting as it's because of v1.9 that we caused that guide to get outdated. When we do that we'll generally rewrite the guide so it provides a better spring-board for newcommers.

[esden]

Here you go, now we have discussions enabled.

As for documentation on adding new targets. This needs work. A great way to write this kind of documentation is actually from the perspective of a newcomer. It is sometimes hard to figure out what is confusing and what needs to be described if one is very familiar with the codebase and it's structure.

So @EdwinFairchild I think you should start working on adding support for your target and ask questions here, and open Q&A discussion topics where appropriate. I hope this will eventually aggregate so that we can collate it into good documentation on the website.

[EdwinFairchild]

Thanks for the discussions option, it is just better than flooding the Issues tab with Q&A. Ill go ahead and start to give this porting a whirl while documenting the process/questions so that perhaps it may pave the way for official documentation.

[mrx23dot]

Do chip vendors know about BMP?
It would be great if they contributed.