Re: Need help on GDB stub development for ARM based boards

Joel Sherrill
2009-09-04T12:15:02Z

Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:16 +0530, Diptopal Basu wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I need some information on how to develop GDB stubs for ARM based
>> boards . Please help .
>>
>> Regards
>> Diptopal
>>
>
> Hi Diptopal,
>
> You may not find anyone on this list who has recently written a
> gdbserver port for ARM. Your best approach is to look at the source for
> a similar target and base your version on that.
>
>
There is a cross-gcc list where you are more likely to find someone.
The RTEMS community probably also has someone but I seem to
here of people using JTAG debuggers on their RTEMS/ARM boards
or simply not needing to debug :).
> There are lots to choose from in the gdbserver directory. I notice there
> are two files with "arm" in the name. You may like to look at how
> linux-arm-low.c/linux-low.c and win32-arm-low.c/win32-low.c are
> implemented for ideas.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>