While bringing up an STM32G4 for the new revision of the moteus controller, I wanted to be able to flash and debug the system, and thus needed a working OpenOCD installation.  The NUCLEO-G474RE board has an ST-LINK-V3 debug interface, which no released version of OpenOCD supports, although thankfully that is working just fine at HEAD in git.  However, to make the STM32G4 work I had to pull some patches from the sysprogs/openocd tree.

When working on the firmware for Super Mega Microbot’s improved actuators, I decided to try using mbed-os from ARM for the STM32 libraries instead of the HAL libraries.  I always found that the HAL libraries had a terrible API, and yet they still required that any non-trivial usage of the hardware devolve into register twiddling to be effective.  mbed presents a pretty nice C++ API for the features they do support, which is only a little less capable than HAL, but still makes it trivial to drop down to register twiddling when necessary (and includes all of the HAL by reference).