What is the MDK? in context Eclipse, GCC, upgrading SDK

[butch]

What is the MDK? I am using Eclipse and GCC on Linux with the GNU ARM plugin for Eclipse. I need to upgrade from SDK12.0 to get the workaround for errata 108.

The release notes for SDK 12.1 says "- Updating the MDK requires to manually copy the header and linker files into the SDK folder (ARM Keil uVision 4, IAR Workbench, ARMGCC)." I am not quite sure how to interpret that. My best guess is that the GNU ARM plugin has been taking care of downloading device packs from an ARM site for me? AFAIK, I need to download the SDK, point my project paths to it and/or copy files such as system_nrf52.c FROM the SDK into my project. The statement from the release notes seems to imply that I need to copy some files INTO the SDK folder from some external site?

[awneil]

MDK = Microcontroller Development Kit - a Keil product:

http://www2.keil.com/mdk5

[butch]

OK. I will assume that the statement in the release notes applies to users of Keil products. And that Softbank which owns ARM which owns Keil also provides some sort of information that is also available open source and that my Linux,Eclipse, GCC, GCC ARM plugin toolchain already fetches or contains the info.

[bjorn-spockeli]

@bootchk (butch): Yes, the GCC ARM plugin will pull the nRF_DeviceFamilyPack from ARM's repos.

[butch]

Yes. I made sure it did pull. AFAIK though, the Nordic SDK is largely self-contained. The only thing that pulling and choosing the dev pack does (for now) is: enable the GNU ARM plugin for Eclipse to show you registers in the Registers tab of the debugger. I suppose one could configure an Eclipse project to reference the headers and so forth that are in the dev pack, but I just reference the copies in the Nordic SDK.