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 g5FKBjnC009442 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:11:45 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5FKBjl7009441 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:11:45 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from crack.them.org (mail@crack.them.org [65.125.64.184]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5FKBgnC009433 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:11:42 -0700 Received: from drow by crack.them.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17JJw6-0004yp-00; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:14:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:14:13 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Justin Wojdacki Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Debugging using GDB and gdbserver Message-ID: <20020615151413.A19123@crack.them.org> References: <3D0B9D14.BFE27F7E@analog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D0B9D14.BFE27F7E@analog.com>; from justin.wojdacki@analog.com on Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:01:24PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:01:24PM -0700, Justin Wojdacki wrote: > > How does GDB work under MIPS Linux? I'm trying to do a bring-up of an > embedded device, and it looks like the kernel is missing the code > needed to handle software breakpoints. Are there patches that need to > be applied to the kernel? No. If you use a current GDB (I recommend 5.2 or CVS) it should work just fine, if you are using a recent kernel (you didn't mention what version you were looking at). -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer MontaVista Software Carnegie Mellon University