[ECOS] how to debug redboot !!

Jonathan Larmour jifl@eCosCentric.com
Tue Sep 2 02:57:00 GMT 2003


mohanlal jangir wrote:
> I am wondering if I need some different way to debug redboot. I don't have
> multi-ice or such debugger. So far I was debugging my application with
> RedBoot. Now I want to debug RedBoot itself. Is it feasible to debug redboot
> with redboot itself? Say I have one redboot image with startup type as ROM
> and another image with startup type as RAM. Can I debug later image with
> former one? Won't it create any chaos?

Certainly it will. Some bits of redboot (such as the CLI or flash) are 
easier to debug than others (anything involving the debugging stub). 
Without an ICE, flashing LEDs or diag_printf's are the order of the day.

Jifl
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