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 g48IH4wJ004345 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 11:17:04 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g48IH4Bl004344 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 2002 11:17:04 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from av.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g48IGwwJ004341 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 11:16:58 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13302; Wed, 8 May 2002 11:17:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD96B76.5090506@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 11:16:22 -0700 From: Jun Sun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: Geoffrey Espin , "Siders, Keith" , "Linux-Mips (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Debugging of embedded target applications References: <7DF7BFDC95ECD411B4010090278A44CA379AA1@ATVX> <20020507221512.GA22326@nevyn.them.org> <20020507154427.D12509@idiom.com> <20020508014314.GA30243@nevyn.them.org> <20020507192523.A73748@idiom.com> <20020508023236.GA31840@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:25:23PM -0700, Geoffrey Espin wrote: > >>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> >>>>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. >>> >>In traditional embedded RTOS land, "system-level debugging". >>In the olden days one had to have BDM/JTAG hardware assist >>to step thru truly arbitary bits of code, like interrupt handlers, >>scheduler. >> >>The original question was about using using a hardware debugger. >>Clearly using gdb/gdbserver is for apps only, AFAIK. Does one >>bother with a h/w debugger for apps? Using kgdb with some kind >> > > Actually, yes, you can. I believe at least the Abatron BDI can do > this. Could be wrong, though. > I have used kgdb over JTAG. Jun