From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1195 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2005 17:45:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 1181 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Dec 2005 17:45:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e34.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.152) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:44:56 +0000 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jB6Hiswn004223 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:44:54 -0500 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id jB6HkRsl096482 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:46:27 -0700 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jB6HirLR026235 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:44:53 -0700 Received: from dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.95]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jB6HirOZ026214; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:44:53 -0700 From: Paul Gilliam Reply-To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: debugging a bootloader Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:45:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Carlos Mitidieri References: <200512061501.38025.carlos.mitidieri@sysgo.com> <20051206140248.GB32659@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20051206140248.GB32659@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512061016.51838.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:02, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:01:37PM +0100, Carlos Mitidieri wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have a doubt on the applicability of gdb: > > Is it possible to use gdb in connection with the accompanying simulator to > > debug a bootloader (like u-boot) for an arm > > Thank you very much for your attention. > > Probably not; you need a simulator that will provide all the hardware > your boot loader expects. > But you *may* be able to debug *part* of it with the simulator. But that's just a guess -=# Paul #=-