[U-Boot-Users] GDB support for ARM

[Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Dirk Behme wrote:
> using U-Boot at an ARM9 board, at the moment I download a image by tftp 
> into board's SDRAM and then start the image by 'g 0x1000000' (0x10000000 
> is the SDRAM base address).
> 
> Now, I wonder if it is possible to start the image under control of gdb. 
>  As I understand it, there can run a small 'gdb-stub' on the target 
> which talks by serial line or by ethernet with the gdb on the 
> development host.
> 
> In common/kgdb.c there seems to be something like this small 'gdb-stub'? 
> Does it work for ARM? How can it be used?

The code you are quoting suggests that it is for ppc. I personally would
not wast the time to try to make the serial kgdb stuff working - the
BDI2000 works fine with ARM9 cpus and you can use gdb with it as well. 

Robert
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