Reduce size of DFP packs with a superset SVD file?

[ReinhardKeil]

The Problem To Be Solved

System Description Files (SVD) files provide information about the device peripherals. The DFP (device family pack) information contains SVD files. For DFPs that frame a large device family, today each device may contain a different SVD file. However as it is a device family the difference is mostly in number of peripherals. Frequently a super-set device exists.

What are the best ways to create a super-set SVD file:

• Would it be feasible to use a C preprocessor to extract only the information required?

• How can we ensure backwards compatibility for the large set of tools that are supporting todays format?

  • Do we extend cpackget?

[jkrech]

See PR from Tarek here: Open-CMSIS-Pack/svd-spec#13

There is two size aspects:
a) size of zipped pack archive file itself
b) size after extraction on disk
-> generate SVD file targeted to the selected/used device