Nice. So how many manufacturers create those XML files which describe all the registers? Is that common in the Arduino community, for example?
Checkout the latest version (now called modm). A description of our device file format can be found here: https://github.com/modm-io/modm/blob/develop/devices/Readme.... If you are interested in the data for STMs, checkout: https://github.com/modm-io/modm-devices/tree/develop/devices...
"The CMSIS System View Description format(CMSIS-SVD) formalizes the description of the system contained in ARM Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers, in particular, the memory mapped registers of peripherals."
If it's possible, and this tooling makes SVDs a really powerful tool for porting, then perhaps it would be easier for the community to write SVDs for non-ARM chips than code.
https://github.com/posborne/cmsis-svd/blob/master/data/STMic...
It’s a more than 10k loc XML file. It is too much effort for the community to do that and verify it. And as an embedded system engineer, I wouldn’t trust the community-driven register definition because even vendors have some bug on it and it is almost impossible for the community to write a better register definitions than the vendors themselves. This is a vendors’ job, not the community's.