07:05 <Corvus> Hey, guys. What do you think of that marvel? https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004001862727.html my goal is to debug an rp2040 over SWD with openocd.

07:07 <Corvus> and that marvel https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005003340645557.html

07:14 <PaulFertser> Corvus: why not use another rp2040? Or the other core in the same one?

07:18 <Corvus> PaulFertser: I am under the impression that using rp2040 as an swd adapter requires using a heavily patched fork of openocd. Were the changes upstreamed?

07:20 <PaulFertser> Corvus: can't tell exactly, but self-compiling isn't problematic in any case.

07:21 <Corvus> I suppose not, since I'm a long time gentoo user. :-) But still... I have some concerns about it being old/abandoned/unmaintained.

07:22 <Corvus> the fork that is

07:23 <Corvus> again, I don't _know_ that it's unmaintained, I'm concerned that it might be

07:23 <PaulFertser> I can't tell if those aliexpress devices are good, probably they're ok.

07:24 <h4x0riz3d> did someone say daplink

07:25 <PaulFertser> btw, anyone can send patches upstream

07:27 <Corvus> If it was trivial to do, it would've been done already. Upstreams have standards of quality... hopefully.

07:31 <Corvus> Anyway. What I'm currently trying to figure out is what they mean by "u-disk", or more specifically "no u-disk". Right now it seems like "u-disk" is chinese for "mass storage device", and you can flash the target by writing a .hex to it. Which for rp2040 is not a super-useful feature since it can do it on its own

07:35 <Corvus> So I'm trying to figure out what else I'm going to lose with the "no u-disk" version

07:35 <Corvus> if anything

07:37 <PaulFertser> Guess someone's gotta buy it and try.

07:37 <Corvus> Guess so. Luckily it's cheap enough.

07:43 <PaulFertser> But you need something with daplink or jlink firmware, not stlink.

07:44 <h4x0riz3d> gdlink ;P~

07:45 <Corvus> PaulFertser: well, these two adapters both are daplink