AVR support for gdb 5.x

["Roland Zitzke" <zitzke at gmx dot de>]

Hi,

I am new to this list so please apologize if this issue has been discussed before.

For gdb 4.18 there was a pathch for the Atmel AVR microcontroller written by Denis Chertykov. I haven't seen any AVR support in the latest (5.0) gdb version.

I tried to port the patch to gdb 5 but I encountered several issues about changed macro and function definitions. Therefore I want to make sure no one else has already done this job before I spend more time on it.

The patch relys on a special monitor connected via a TCP port.

This monitor software then uses a proprietary connection scheme on the PCs parallel port which is frequently used to connect Atmel AVR controllers.

 

Rgds

Roland Zitzke