Motorola coldfire520X and gcc/gdb

[Rolf Fiedler]

hi there,

while trying to build a binutils/gcc/gdb crossdevelopment platform
for an embedded CF5204 system I learned that there is no 
proper coldfire support in the gcc sources.

the coldfire has a instruction set that is a reduced 68000 set with
a couple of 68020 enhancements (VBR, etc..) plus cache control
and MAC (multiply-accumelate) instructions.

Now, the binutils support coldfire, i.e. I can ask gas to detect
unsupported instructions and print nice error messages.

the problem is that I can't get gcc compiled in a way that
gcc only emits instructions supported by coldfires.

the next problem is that the libgcc1.asm for m68k has instructions
missing from coldfires all over it. Well, I can fix that one easily.

 The worst thing is that I can not get gcc to invoke gas with the
proper -m5200, so gas has no chance to detect the unsupported 
instructions (and I feel everything went ok :-(

I haven't done any compiler back-end work for gcc yet, so I have
no clue what to touch in config/m68k/.

For debugging I want to use gdb, and there is a BDM 
(background debugging mode) patch for gdb and a kernel module
for my linux box's parallel port interface cable.
This has been developed for CPU32's with BDM - has anybody tried
it with coldfire?

Now the questions:
has anybody been doing work on the subject?
Are there any patches?
Am I just misunderstanding the whole problem?

thanks for your attention,
rolf

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|  ||||||   |  Rolf Fiedler                                            |
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