From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5816 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2003 18:13:31 -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 5792 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2003 18:13:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 5 Jan 2003 18:13:30 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18VH91-00024Y-00; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:13:15 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18VFGW-0003o6-00; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:12:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:13:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Torsten Mohr Cc: gdb Subject: Re: Parallel Port Software, GDB remote protocol Message-ID: <20030105181252.GA11227@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Torsten Mohr , gdb References: <200301051809.48713.tmohr@s.netic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301051809.48713.tmohr@s.netic.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:09:48PM +0100, Torsten Mohr wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i'd like to announce pppcb-0.4.0, a piece of software > that lets you (Linux only at the moment) do several > things on the parallel port, like: > > It contains software / does things like: > > - accesses serial EEPROMs > - debug an ARM microcontroller > - a server that understands GDB remote protocol (first version) > - do software JTAG via the parallel port > - read out Playstation Joysticks > - an AVR terminal (cyclically polling the SPI) (first version) > - simple test software that ouputs/reads the parallel port > > > Former versions didn't compile, this should be fixed now. > > > The software is available at: > > http://www.s.netic.de/tmohr/pppcb-0.4.0.tar.bz2 > > > This version of the GDB remote protocol server is ridiculously slow, > i'm still working on it. > > > Also, i still didn't find any good documentation of the GDB remote > protocol. I can download a program and start it, but when i press > the "Stop" button in arm-unknown-elf-insight, i only get an empty > packet. > > Can anybody tell me where to find better documentation for GDB remote > protocol? The GDB manual. It's online at http://sources.redhat.com/gdb, or in the source package in Texinfo (can be built into DVI, PDF, Info, etc.) > What is going wrong with the "Stop" mechanism, why do i receive an empty > message? My guess is that it isn't empty; instead it probably has \003, a Control-C character, in it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer