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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Sébastien Côté <scote1@Matrox.COM>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Progress - new problem
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:52:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010212135230.44A5D281D9@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:39:54 EST." <20010212083954.A768@dyn-52-73.matrox.com>


Dear Sébastien,

in message <20010212083954.A768@dyn-52-73.matrox.com> you wrote:
>
> > Oops? Why do you think this makes debugging more complicated? I don't
> > care where something is mapped, it's  the  job  of  the  debugger  to
> > resolve those addresses, isn't it?
>
> Yes, the debugger should do it but ours don't.  Also, I haven't found a way

Then convert it into a doorstop, and get a real debugger.

I strongly recommend the BDI2000  by  Abatron  (see  www.abatron.ch).
Send me a message when you want a quote for it.

> to tell it to load the kernel image at address 0 even if the linking was
> done for address 0xc0000000.  So I have to load the kernel with another

You can't specify any load offsets? Oh dear. Get a real debugger!

> > Are you really trying to run in little-endian mode? Really???
> > You are not supposed to do that.
>
> Yes, really!  I don't see why I shouldn't do that.  The kernel itself seems
> to be running fine (no panic, it goes to the scheduler).  My only problem
> right now is to load executables and I'm not sure it's endian related.

Be assured that this will not remain the only problem. From all I know,
the PowerPC version of Linux is a big-endian kernel by design.

Wolfgang Denk

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       reply	other threads:[~2001-02-12 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20010212083954.A768@dyn-52-73.matrox.com>
2001-02-12 13:52 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2001-02-12 14:54   ` Progress - new problem Ross A. Osborn
2001-02-12 14:33     ` Marius Groeger
2001-02-12 16:35     ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-02-12 16:35     ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-02-12 14:55   ` Sébastien Côté
2001-02-12 14:35     ` Marius Groeger
2001-02-12 14:41       ` Matt Porter
2001-02-12 18:37         ` Sébastien Côté
2001-02-09 16:24 hints on read() - EFAULT problem Conor O'Gorman
2001-02-09 21:19 ` Progress - new problem Sébastien Côté
2001-02-09 22:11   ` Wolfgang Denk

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