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From: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
To: Maryyam Muhammad Din <maryyam35@gmail.com>
Cc: awaheed777@yahoo.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-discuss@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Debugging bootloader with gdb in qemu
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 13:27:50 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140101132750.9264d75d31c0af009776dc37@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGvb7R0e_wqb1iaktOnsJ-v-sFTrrFWcOvBicD+Wz1HFyz7b8w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:55:38 +0500
Maryyam Muhammad Din <maryyam35@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to debug bootloader with gdb in QEMU. I run QEMU command like
> this
> 
> ./qemu-system-mips64 -s -S -m 1024 -M  octeon  -bios
> u-boot-octeon_ebh5610.bin  -kernel vmlinux.64 -append 'coremask=001 mem=0
> root=/dev/sda2'
> 
> and then connect gdb using
> 
> mips64-octeon-linux-gnu-gdb u-boot-octeon_ebh5610
> target remote localhost:1234
> 
> when i try to step into bootloader code, it continues execution without
> breaking. This totally skip the bootloader code which i want to examine
> step by step as it execute.
> Can anyone suggest, what do i need to do to resolve this issue.

See this screencast:

  http://dir.tftpd.net:7080/~antony/mips-barebox-qemu-gdb-howto-20131219.avi

This screencast will show you how to trace bootloader (barebox, http://www.barebox.org)
for MIPS malta using qemu and gdb.

> Thank You
> -- 
> Maryyam Muhammad Din
> Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
> UET Lahore


-- 
-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov

      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-01  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01  7:55 [Qemu-devel] Debugging bootloader with gdb in qemu Maryyam Muhammad Din
2014-01-01  9:27 ` Antony Pavlov [this message]

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