From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: mohanlal jangir <mohanlaljangir@hotmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: hardware support for gdb?
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4031535A.7080500@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LAW11-OE27F2fPmsSVh000083e1@hotmail.com>
> I have an ARM board which comes with its own boot monitor, which just
>
> brings
>
>> > up the board. I download RedBoot to bring the target up as well as to
>> > connect with gdb. My question is, what is minimal support required from
>
> a
>
>> > target hardware so that an application like RedBoot can work on it to
>> > connect with gdb and provide debugging.
>
>>
>> Some sort of "serial" communications channel (from a simple serial
>> device through to mini-tcp on an ethernet device).
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
>
> Really!! Does even single stepping also not require any hardware support?
I'm not sure what you mean by hardware support. The instruction set
architecture needs to provide a breakpoint instruction. A single-step
mechanism is useful but not an absolute requirement - GDB can use
software singlestep (although I suspect that code has bitrotten).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-16 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-13 10:47 mohanlal jangir
2004-02-13 14:55 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-16 4:06 ` mohanlal jangir
2004-02-16 23:33 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-02-17 4:49 ` mohanlal jangir
2004-02-17 13:56 ` Bill Gatliff
2004-02-17 20:04 ` Vijay Kamarshi
2004-02-18 14:25 ` Bill Gatliff
2004-02-18 16:51 ` Vijay Kamarshi
2004-02-17 15:12 ` Peter Barada
2004-02-17 5:12 Atul Talesara
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