Re: gdb over smbus

[Rick.Lee <rickmaillist at gmail dot com>]

thanks,Daniel,
     there are some incorrect information about this soc, through
smbus interface, cpu core registers, such as status register, register
files r0-rx could not be accessed, all other peripheral registers can
be accessed,including breakpoint enable/disable.
     with these restrictions, is it still possible to do such a
converter to support source level debuging?
     thank you.
Rick

2007/7/6, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:21:46PM +0800, Rick.Lee wrote:
> > hi,all,
> >    I have a soc with smbus interface, through this smbus interface,
> > all kinds of resources on chip can be accessed, such as sram,
> > registers, to set/enable/disable breakpoint, restart soc.
> >    I want to know if it's possible to port GDB on this soc to supoort
> > souce code level debug?
> >    BTW, gcc compiler has been ported to support this kind of soc.
> >    I know little about gdb porting, any information are appreciated!
>
> Probably.  You should write a convertor between your SMBus debug
> interface and the GDB remote protocol, and then connect GDB to it over
> TCP.
>
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> Daniel Jacobowitz
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