Select openOCD board configuration missing esp32-s3 usb-jtag option.... this was painful to get working (VSC-897)

esp-box dev kit here.

Ran through the installation steps, was able to program via openocd but kept getting invalid target errors, I think because I was using the esp32c3 openocd configuration as that was the closest one to the esp32s3 config with built in usb-jtag.

Started going through the bug reporting process and pulling variables and then, after verifying that the appropriate board file existed changed these entries from:

    "idf.openOcdConfigs": [
        "board/esp32c3-builtin.cfg"
    ],
    "idf.adapterTargetName": "esp32c3",

to:

    "idf.openOcdConfigs": [
        "board/esp32s3-builtin.cfg"
    ],
    "idf.adapterTargetName": "esp32s3",

then restarted vscode and its working, so I think this is what fixed it.

Is there a reason there is no esp32-s3 usb-jtag option for the openocd board config?

[chmorgan]

Should we be looking to contribute the new entry to the plugin? Please don’t mark this as stale 😦

[brianignacio5]

It should already work with built-in usb JTAG.

Could you share the troubleshooting doc What is happening when you start the debug session. What is the openOCD and Debug Adapter output? You might need to increment the logLevel of them to see the error.