[U-Boot-Users] Newbie: gdb and BDI2000

[Armand Ciejak <armand.ciejak@free.fr>]

Hello,

Here my problem: I want to debug u-boot for a custom board based on the
MPC8540 CPU. The board I'm working on is actually from Metrowerks
(EVAL8540), which is similar to the MPC8540ADS. I got the source of u-boot
1.1.2 and modified the MPC8540ADS configuration (Memory size, ...).
I compiled uboot with the debug option (I add a defined in the
u-boot_1.1.2/include/configs/board_name.h file).
Obviously after copying the u-boot.bin to the flash memory via the BDI2000,
the sytem doesn't start: no output on the serial port!!!

My problem is that I can't really debug, here a typical session:

armand at linuxcompiler:~/u-boot/u-boot_1.1.2$ ppc-linux-gdb u-boot
Warning: Cannot initialize solib-absolute-prefix
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This GDB was configured as "--host=i386-redhat-linux --target=ppc-linux"...
0xfffffffc in ?? ()
(gdb) si
0xfffff000      65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff004      65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff008 in _start_e500 ()
at /home/armand/u-boot/u-boot_1.1.2/lib_ppc/ticks.S:65
65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff00c in _start_e500 ()
at /home/armand/u-boot/u-boot_1.1.2/lib_ppc/ticks.S:65
65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff010      65              blr
.
.
.
(gdb)
0xfffff140      65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff144 in _start_e500 ()
at /home/armand/u-boot/u-boot_1.1.2/lib_ppc/ticks.S:65
65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff148      65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff14c      65              blr
(gdb)
0xfffff150      65              blr
(gdb)

Program received signal SIGSTOP, Stopped (signal).
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)     


I think I'm doing something wrong but what ???

thanks

Armand

More info:
- ppc-linux-gdb installed from the ELDK 3.1
- BDI2000 for MPC85xx rev C with the latest firmware
- cross compiler from ELDK 3.1