From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:08:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nevyn.them.org ([IPv6:::ffff:66.93.172.17]:21905 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:08:30 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AazwN-0003iY-0h; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:08:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:08:22 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark and Janice Juszczec Cc: kevink@mips.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: gdbserver and Re: hardware questions Message-ID: <20031229160822.GA14229@nevyn.them.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3848 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:31:36PM +0000, Mark and Janice Juszczec wrote: > > Kevin, et al > > > > > >If you want more of a "large format" mipsel platform > >to experiment with, you might be able to find an old > >"RISC PC" from Siemens or NEC with an R4000 > >configured little-endian to run NT. Maybe Ralf has > >one in his attic he'd care to sell you. ;o) > > > > Ralf? > > >I don't know that it's the root of your problem, but > >you should definitely get getty/shells off of whatever > >serial port you're trying to use for debug. > > If I have no shell running on the serial port, how would I start gdbserver? > Would I have to hard code it into the kernel somehow? Try changing /etc/inittab to disable the getty, and starting gdbserver from the system startup scripts in /etc/rc*. I'm assuming you have some other way than that shell on ttyS0 to modify the filesystem :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer