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MSP430 debug stack #58600

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MSP430 debug stack #58600

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@AerialX AerialX commented Mar 31, 2019

Motivation for this change

mspdebug has support for loading libmsp430.so at runtime to use TI's vendor driver for interfacing with debug/jtag hardware, which has better/additional support for their devices.

Questions
  • Is including the binary distribution appropriate here? It has additional proprietary support, is ahead of the open source release, but is kind of ugly and unfree. The idea is that if you need it, you can use pkgs.mspdebug.override { mspds = pkgs.mspds-bin; } to get it. Attempts to contact them about updating the open-source version were deflected.
  • enableMspds is currently ? false in mspdebug: darwin fixes and enableParallelBuilding #58598, so this won't be used by default. Would it make sense to change that default?
  • Is the patch alright? The package is messy vendor code based on an outdated boost and doesn't compile otherwise. There's some discussion on why it's necessary.
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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Assured whether relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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AerialX commented Jun 2, 2020

Mean bot, it still merges fine :(

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Sorry for taking so long. It seems that the maintainers didn't know what to do at the time, because they want to do a good job and they don't know about this tool.
However, you're the maintainer, so we should trust that you know the tool and we should only have to review the Nix-specific aspects.
I hope we can be better at this, but please don't hesitate to ask for a review and merge on IRC, discourse, requesting a review on github, @ mentioning a nixpkgs committer, etc.

@roberth roberth merged commit f689955 into NixOS:master May 7, 2021
@AerialX AerialX deleted the msp430-mspds branch May 18, 2021 05:56
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