From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23206 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2004 12:23:05 -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 23177 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2004 12:22:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO odin2.bull.net) (192.90.70.84) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2004 12:22:58 -0000 Received: from cln-m001.frcl.bull.fr (cln-m001.frcl.bull.fr [129.182.91.40]) by odin2.bull.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA33886 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:31:48 +0200 Received: from frcls3107 ([129.182.108.215]) by cln-m001.frcl.bull.fr (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.10) with SMTP id 2004040614225700:129 ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:22:57 +0200 Reply-To: From: "Vincent Girard-Reydet" To: Subject: ia64 in-target debugging Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 Hi everyone, I'm writing a stub for gdb on ia64 machines in order to debug a BIOS (in fact it will be a stub for the EFI/ia64). I intend to debug my ia64 server from a x86 laptop through a serial line. I saw in the archives that it might not be possible to achieve it. Any comments about it ? Have you any clues (or pointers to some how-to) on how I could compile gdb on my laptop to get this stuff working ? The problem is that if I do a ./configure, I think gdb will know x86, but not ia64, and I need him to know both of them. I also need some informations about the executable formats supported by GDB. The EFI spec requires PE32+ executable format (extension of the PE/COFF format), but it's not clear if GDB supports it. If not, any idea of the amount of work needed to support it ? Also, I don't know where to post my stub when it is debugged. If someone could tell me, this would be great. Thank you for your reponses! Regards, Winch