From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g481lmwJ017703 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:47:48 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g481lmXU017702 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:47:48 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from sgi.com (sgi-too.SGI.COM [204.94.211.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g481lewJ017694 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:47:40 -0700 Received: from nevyn.them.org (NEVYN.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.145.6]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA01115 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:48:25 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (drow@crack.them.org) Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 175GU6-0007s8-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 21:43:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 21:43:14 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Geoffrey Espin Cc: "Siders, Keith" , "Linux-Mips (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Debugging of embedded target applications Message-ID: <20020508014314.GA30243@nevyn.them.org> References: <7DF7BFDC95ECD411B4010090278A44CA379AA1@ATVX> <20020507221512.GA22326@nevyn.them.org> <20020507154427.D12509@idiom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020507154427.D12509@idiom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:44:27PM -0700, Geoffrey Espin wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:15:12PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > it's called "gdbserver", and is included with the GDB distribution. > > I recommend you get GDB 5.2, released last week; the gdbserver included > > in that version is far superior for GNU/Linux targets to any previous > > release. > > Does work it for kernel type debugging over *Ethernet*? > I see some docs saying "TCP/IP" connection... but does that > mean a special kind of network driver? Or a gdbstub/agent > outside the kernel in a special monitor? What do you mean by kernel type debugging? It's not a kernel stub. It can debug user programs over TCP/IP or a serial line. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer