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+Please report bugs by posting a message to 
+
+openocd-development@lists.berlios.de.
+
+To minimize work for OpenOCD developers, you can include
+all the information below.  If you feel that some of the
+items below are unecessary for a clear bug report, you
+leave them out.
+
+
+- Target PCB/board description
+- Config scripts
+- OpenOCD command line
+- List of commands issued or GDB operations performed
+- Expected result
+- Actual result
+- debug_level 3 logs
+- If this is a regression, include logs for working and broken
+version
+- If this is a regression, please find out the precise version
+that caused the regression. This can be done via a binary
+search. E.g. if version 550 worked and 600 failed, then try
+575, etc.
+
+
+attach files directly to the posting. The mailing list knows to 
+transform attachments to links so you will not be bloating anyones
+mail box. Keep attachments to <100kBytes.
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