How to define in the XML files a register that is duplicated N times and defines several fields?

[chevillotn]

Hi I would like to have a 32 bit register defined as:

• mask: 0xFFFF0000 => id='field1'
• mask: 0x0000FFFF => id='field2'

duplicated N times (say N=10)

The current solution i use is the following:

  <node id="test_reg_0" address="0x00000000" module="file://test_reg.xml" description="test reg"/>
...
  <node id="test_reg_9" address="0x00000009" module="file://test_reg.xml" description="test reg"/>

with test_reg.xml as:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<node id="top">
  <node id="field1" permission="r" mask="0xffff0000" description="field1"/>
  <node id="field2" permission="r" mask="0x0000ffff" description="field2"/>
</node>

Would there be a more compact way of doing this? I have tried:

  <node id="test_reg" address="0x00000000" permission="r" description="test reg" size="10" mode="incremental">
    <node id="field1" permission="r" description="field1" mask="0xffff0000"/>
    <node id="field2" permission="r" description="field2" mask="0x0000ffff"/>
  </node>

but this gives me an overlap warning message, even if size is set to 1.

Thanks

[tswilliams]

Hi!

Your current solution is the most compact way of doing this - i.e:

  <node id="test_reg_0" address="0x00000000" module="file://test_reg.xml" description="test reg"/>
...
  <node id="test_reg_9" address="0x00000009" module="file://test_reg.xml" description="test reg"/>

... with the test_reg.xml file that you mentioned.

Cheers,
Tom

[chevillotn]

Hi Tom,
Wouldn't it be an improvment to be able to use size in the register definition?
That would allow to keep the original name of the register and not have artifically added suffix like _0, and also would allow to use the readBlockOffset function or similar.