docs/guides/lwl: move lwl's README.txt to lwl.rst

This PR moves the lwl's READEME.txt file to Documentation/guides/lwl.rst

Signed-off-by: Luchian Mihai <luchiann.mihai@gmail.com>
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Luchian Mihai
2025-12-22 13:58:09 +02:00
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@@ -61,4 +61,5 @@ Guides
rust.rst
optee.rst
qemu_tips.rst
lwl.rst
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
=============================
Console over Lightweight Link
=============================
LWL is a Lightweight bidirectional communication between target and debug host
without any need for additional hardware.
It works with openOCD and other debuggers that are capable of reading and
writing memory while the target is running...it should run with JLink
for example, if you've got the SDK and modify this file accordingly.
Principle of operation is simple; An 'upword' of 32 bits communicates
from the target to the host, a 'downword' of the same size runs in the
Principle of operation is simple; An `'upword'` of 32 bits communicates
from the target to the host, a `'downword'` of the same size runs in the
opposite direction. These two words can be in any memory that is
read/write access for both the target and the debug host. A simple ping
pong handshake protocol over these words allows up/down link communication.
@@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ upwordaddr if you want to work with fixed locations.
Bit configuration
-----------------
Downword (Host to target);
Downword (Host to target)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A D U VV XXX O2 O1 O0
@@ -38,7 +40,8 @@ O2 23-16 8 - Octet 2
O1 15-08 8 - Octet 1
O0 07-00 8 - Octet 0
Upword (Target to Host);
Upword (Target to Host)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A 31 1 - Service Active (Set by device)
D 30 1 - Downsense ack (Toggled to acknowledge receipt of downlink data)
@@ -61,55 +64,55 @@ In the first terminal execute the openocd command to connect to the board.
Assuming that you already flashed to firmware (nuttx.bin) with the LWL
console support. For stm32f4discovery board I use this command:
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$ sudo openocd -f board/stm32f4discovery.cfg
Open On-Chip Debugger v0.10.0-esp32-20200526-6-g4c41a632 (2020-06-23-10:12)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Info : The selected transport took over low-level target control. The results might differ compared to plain JTAG/SWD
srst_only separate srst_nogate srst_open_drain connect_deassert_srst
.. code-block:: console
Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections
Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections
Info : clock speed 2000 kHz
Info : STLINK V2J17S0 (API v2) VID:PID 0483:3748
Info : Target voltage: 3.216252
Info : stm32f4x.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
Info : Listening on port 3333 for gdb connections
Info : accepting 'tcl' connection on tcp/6666
invalid command name "ocd_mdw"
0x20000000: 000000ff
$ sudo openocd -f board/stm32f4discovery.cfg
Open On-Chip Debugger v0.10.0-esp32-20200526-6-g4c41a632 (2020-06-23-10:12)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Info : The selected transport took over low-level target control. The results might differ compared to plain JTAG/SWD
srst_only separate srst_nogate srst_open_drain connect_deassert_srst
Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections
Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections
Info : clock speed 2000 kHz
Info : STLINK V2J17S0 (API v2) VID:PID 0483:3748
Info : Target voltage: 3.216252
Info : stm32f4x.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
Info : Listening on port 3333 for gdb connections
Info : accepting 'tcl' connection on tcp/6666
invalid command name "ocd_mdw"
0x20000000: 000000ff
0x20000000: 000000ff
0x20000000: 000000ff
0x20000004: 7216a318
0x2000000c: 994b5b1b
0x2000000c: 994b5b1b
0x2000000c: 994b5b1b
0x20000004: 7216a318
0x2000000c: 994b5b1b
0x2000000c: 994b5b1b
0x2000000c: 994b5b1b
...
The "0x2000000c:..." will repeat all the time.
...
Now in another terminal execute:
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$ ./ocdconsole.py
==Link Activated
.. code-block:: console
nsh>
nsh> help
help usage: help [-v] [<cmd>]
$ ./ocdconsole.py
==Link Activated
nsh>
nsh> help
help usage: help [-v] [<cmd>]
? echo exit hexdump ls mh sleep xd
cat exec help kill mb mw usleep
nsh>
? echo exit hexdump ls mh sleep xd
cat exec help kill mb mw usleep
nsh>
------------------------------------------
This code is designed to be 'hardy' and will survive a shutdown and
This code is designed to be `'hardy'` and will survive a shutdown and
restart of the openocd process. When your target application
changes then the location of the upword and downword may change,
so they are re-searched for again. To speed up the start process
@@ -124,4 +127,4 @@ better performance it could use interrupts to detect when the memory
position was modified to read the data.
It also will avoid using busy waiting inside the driver, look at
nuttx/arch/arm/src/common/arm_lwl_console.c for more information.
``nuttx/arch/arm/src/common/arm_lwl_console.c`` for more information.