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Re: arm-eabi-gdb




Sergei Gavrikov-4 wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:21:00AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> grahamlab wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Chris Zimman wrote:
>> >> [-- snip --]
>> >>
>> >> Quoting reams of previous message is also not required, just enough to
>> >> sort
>> >> of continue the conversation.
>> >>
>> >>> I did not have mincom running.
>> >>> I type arm-eabi-gdb -nw
>> >>> DevBoard_install/tests/kernel/v3_0/tests/bin_sem0
>> >>> at the gdb prompt
>> >>> set remotebaud 38400
>> >>> target remote /dev/ttyS0
>> >>>
>> >>> After this according to the ecos documentation I should see some
>> >>> information
>> >>> about the current loaction and language.
>> >>>
>> >>> What I get is
>> >>> Remote Debugging using /dev/ttyS0
>> >>> 0x08003b3a in ?? ()
>> >>>
>> >>> I dont get any extra information.
>> >> It looks as though GDB has attached and you are sitting at the current
>> PC.
>> >>
>> >>> Is this a problem?
>> >> No, not necessarily.  You may well be sitting in Redboot also, which
>> GDB
>> >> knows nothing about in terms of symbols (since you haven't told it
>> about
>> >> them
>> >> yet).
>> >>
>> >> I don't mean this in any kind of an insulting way, but do you know how
>> to
>> >> use
>> >> GDB for something like this (eg. are you familiar with
>> add-symbol-file)?
>> >> Did you build the tests with debugging enabled (eg. -g)?
>> >>
>> >> Again, because there isn't really a ton of info here, I can't just
>> look at
>> >> it
>> >> and say "Ah ha!  The problem is [whatever]"
>> >>
>> >> --Chris
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> > Chris
>> > I am not entirely familiar with gdb in these circumstances.
>> > I have simply followed the examples give in the eCos documentation and
>> am
>> > trying to understand why things are not working.
>> > This is why there is not a lot of information.
>> > All tests were built using -g
>> > Cannot download a file using mincom it will just sit there
>> 
>> Get this to work first - it tells us that your VirtualBox can't
>> talk to the board under all circumstances.
>> 
>> Here's how to test it:
>> 
>>   VirtualBox:
>>     * run minicom to the board
>>     * get a RedBoot prompt
>>         RedBoot> lo -r -b %{FREEMEMLO} -m xm
>>     * at this point, you should see
>>         CCCC
>>     * tell minicom to send the file
>>         ^A-S
>>           ...
>> 
>> Follow these steps _exactly_ and tell us what happens in each.  Don't
>> leave anything out - we're not mind readers...
>> 
> 
> Gary, it seems that I knew something. I just tried:
> 
> sudo mv /usr/bin/{,no}sx
> sudo mv /usr/bin/{,no}sz
> sudo mv /usr/bin/{,no}sb
> 
> and minicom tries to send having no senders!
> 
> Graham,
> 
> Do you have /usr/bin/sz, /usr/bin/sx, /usr/bin/sb ?
> 
> Do
> 
> $ ls /usr/bin/sx
> 
> What you get?
> 
> Sergei
> 
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> 
> 

Hi Sergei

I do dont have /bin/sx which I beleive is what minicom uses
Does this mater?

Graham
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