From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Taylor To: "Noah Aklilu" Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: gdb over ethernet Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000 Message-id: <200103051635.LAA29810@texas.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00029.html From: "Noah Aklilu" Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 08:54:09 -0700 Hi I was looking through gdb's debugging interface and it all seems oriented to debugging over a serial port. I would be interested in getting it working over ethernet (really over tcp/ip), that is connecting directly to the remote target over ethernet without a remote terminal server (as seems to be the current implementation). How horrible would it be to implement this and can it be done within the current framework? Noah. Unless I am misunderstanding what you are asking for, it's already part of the standard gdb. You mention not using a remote terminal server and connecting directly to the target -- but GDB doesn't know what is at the other end! From GDB's perspective, there is NO difference between the two. GDB only knows what it sent and what responses it got back -- it doesn't know (nor care) what is at the other end. Whether it is a terminal server talking to the target over a serial line, a gdbserver program, or the board directly, does not matter to GDB.