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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:40:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: "Rick.Lee" <rickmaillist@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: gdb over smbus
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:43:42PM +0800, Rick.Lee wrote:
> thanks,Daniel,
>      there are some incorrect information about this soc, through
> smbus interface, cpu core registers, such as status register, register
> files r0-rx could not be accessed, all other peripheral registers can
> be accessed,including breakpoint enable/disable.
>      with these restrictions, is it still possible to do such a
> converter to support source level debuging?

You will have to come up with some way to access the core registers,
if you expect GDB to know the current PC.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery