From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32723 invoked by alias); 24 May 2006 01:44:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 32713 invoked by uid 22791); 24 May 2006 01:44:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU (HELO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu) (18.7.7.80) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 May 2006 01:44:38 +0000 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k4O1iXC6010241; Tue, 23 May 2006 21:44:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.67]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as nathanw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id k4O1iUkb009967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 23 May 2006 21:44:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nathanw@localhost) by contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id k4O1iUXf010592; Tue, 23 May 2006 21:44:30 -0400 (EDT) To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB support for Flash memory programming References: From: "Nathan J. Williams" Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 04:43:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -2.599 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: 2006-05/txt/msg00345.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy writes: > GDB will have a new write-flash variable. This variable will have > three possible states: > > * on > * load > * off How about breakpoints? Should using memory breakpoints require full "on" access? (There are some possible optimizations there; the whole "step: insert breakpoints, run, remove breakpoints" model is kind of bad when the breakpoints are being written to flash). - Nathan