Re: [ECOS] ecos remote debugging

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Kevin Kuo wrote:
> Hi, I am wondering if it is required to install redboot in addition to 
> eCos in order to use the remote debugging function of eCos gdb 
> toolchain?  The board I am using happends to be supported by both.  I am 
> running through the user documentation for eCos under cygwin and I am 
> getting hung up at the target remote /dev/ttyS0 part.  Is it possible 
> that I will need redboot to install remote gdb functionality before I 
> can use eCos?  Thanks.

That's normally the way to do it. You could instead include GDB stubs in 
your application (with the appropriate configuration option in eCos) and 
make a call to the function breakpoint() to enter the stubs at the time of 
your choosing, but that's less common.

Jifl
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