[U-Boot-Users] GDB support for ARM
Robert Schwebel
robert at schwebel.de
Tue Jun 1 11:35:01 CEST 2004
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Dirk Behme wrote:
> using U-Boot at an ARM9 board, at the moment I download a image by tftp
> into board's SDRAM and then start the image by 'g 0x1000000' (0x10000000
> is the SDRAM base address).
>
> Now, I wonder if it is possible to start the image under control of gdb.
> As I understand it, there can run a small 'gdb-stub' on the target
> which talks by serial line or by ethernet with the gdb on the
> development host.
>
> In common/kgdb.c there seems to be something like this small 'gdb-stub'?
> Does it work for ARM? How can it be used?
The code you are quoting suggests that it is for ppc. I personally would
not wast the time to try to make the serial kgdb stuff working - the
BDI2000 works fine with ARM9 cpus and you can use gdb with it as well.
Robert
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