From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13383 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2002 18:29:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13369 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2002 18:29:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO saturn.billgatliff.com) (209.251.101.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Jun 2002 18:29:32 -0000 Received: by saturn.billgatliff.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 60C40141996; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:29:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:29:00 -0000 From: "William A. Gatliff" To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb remote debugging, other than serial port? Message-ID: <20020630132932.A20336@saturn.billgatliff.com> Reply-To: bgat@billgatliff.com References: <20020630094255.A13008@attbi.com> <20020630151806.GA31124@nevyn.them.org> <20020630120440.A13538@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020630120440.A13538@attbi.com>; from rodrigc@attbi.com on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:04:40PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00331.txt.bz2 Craig: I just purchased a USB-serial converter from Purple Computing the other day. I suppose now would be a good time to actually plug it in, no? :^) I'll give it a whirl tomorrow, and let you know. b.g. On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:04:40PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:18:06AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Not to my knowledge. Linux/PowerPC has a bit of a firewire debugging > > stack, but i386 doesn't - and that's xmon, not gdb. > > > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:42:55AM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > it does have ports for USB, Firewire, parallel, and PS/2 port. > > > > > > Would I be able to use gdb for remote debugging over any of these > > > ports? I don't think I would be able to do remote debugging over > > > Ethernet, because I am interested in debugging network protocol > > > stacks. > > > > Thanks for the response. Here is an alternate question to the > problem. Does anyone have any experience using USB to RS-232 > Converters, and using the serial interface offered by that > for remote debugging with gdb? I'm thinking of something like: > > http://www.keyspan.com/products/USB/usa49w/ > > Thanks. > -- > Craig Rodrigues > http://www.gis.net/~craigr > rodrigc@attbi.com > -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com