debugger

ollie lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Thu May 15 21:24:00 CEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 01:23, jarcher wrote:
> To add to Ron's message.
> 
> It varies a lot with your experience and how dirty you want to get.
> 
> A simple POST card and a lot of creative POST code bread crumbs is the 
> cheap and dirty way to go, until you get the serial port debugger up and 
> running.  But it requires you to be really creative in crawling through the 
> code.  And takes a lot of time.
> 
> But you can move up the a logic analyzer looking at bus cycles or an ICE 
> (in circuit emulator) looking at CPU activity  These two are expensive 
> (lots of $10K), but you can often rent them.  Setup is usually the time 
> burner here.  But with a LA you can take selective pictures of events 
> chained together in time.  I don't know if SIS has an ICE for their SOC 
> products.
> 
> Jordan
> 
> PS: Has anyone done a USB interface low level debugger?  Early BIOS or at 
> least just prior to payload decompress.
> 

BTW, why didn't we come up with a GDB stub in LinuxBIOS ??

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ollie lho <ollie at sis.com.tw>




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