I agree with Ron. JTAG debuggers are more robust. But I am interested
in stepping through LinuxBIOS on a working target to quickly understand
the code, so I'm able to attempt a port to a new target. I view it as a
learning tool and a productivity tool. If you could show people how to
use a product like the American Arium, you might get more help.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:06 PM
To: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Kimball, Stephen; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org
Subject: Re: Makefile changes for symbols
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Alternatively it might be work adding gdb stubs into LinuxBIOS. And
doing
> using a remote debugger that way. What a jtag interface provides
> is really not much more than what gdb stubs provides. At least
> not after memory is initialized.
that's not quite correct. There are a host of cpu failures you can
detect
with a jtag interface that gdb stubs are useless for. GDB stubs requires
that the processor be basically sane, jtag interfaces are not near as
picky.
ron