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Re: arm-eabi-gdb




grahamlab wrote:
> 
> 
> Sergei Gavrikov-4 wrote:
>> 
>> Graham wrote:
>>> Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > grahamlab wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > [cut the wars with minicom]
>>> > 
>>> >> Hi Sergei
>>> >> 
>>> >> I have tried downloading various random images as suggested and all
>>> >> download successfully Typing the $ seems to lock the display - is
>>> this
>>> >> what you expected?
>>> >> 
>>> >> Graham
>>> > 
>>> > Yep. It seems for me, your RedBoot supports GDB.
>>> > 
>>> > Now (you work with some built elf binary), fulfil
>>> > 
>>> > i) invoke
>>> > 
>>> > $ file DevBoard_install/tests/kernel/v3_0/tests/bin_sem0
>>> > 
>>> > <copy and paste an output just the below for us>
>>> > DevBoard_install/tests/kernel/v3_0/tests/bin_sem0: ELF 32-bit LSB
>>> > executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
>> 
>> Excellent! It's not stripped elf.
>> 
>>> > ii) invoke
>>> > 
>>> > $ arm-eabi-size -Ax DevBoard_install/tests/kernel/v3_0/tests/bin_sem0
>>> > 
>>> > <copy and paste an output the below for us>
>>> > 
>>> > section              size         addr
>>> > .debug_aranges     0x1440          0x0
>>> > .debug_pubnames    0x377d          0x0
>>> > .debug_info       0x4de43          0x0
>>> > .debug_abbrev      0xab3f          0x0
>>> > .debug_line        0xad87          0x0
>>> > .debug_frame       0x31f8          0x0
>>> > .debug_str         0x8482          0x0
>>> > .debug_loc         0xd8c1          0x0
>>> > .rom_vectors          0x8   0x68008000
>>> > .ARM.exidx           0x10   0x68008008
>>> > .text              0x4330   0x68008018
>>> > .rodata             0x38c   0x6800c348
>>> > .eh_frame             0x8   0x6800c6d8
>>> > .data               0x180   0x6800c6e0
>>> > .bss               0x32f8   0x6800c860
>>> > .ARM.attributes      0x2f          0x0
>>> > .debug_ranges      0x44c0          0x0
>>> > .comment            0x8f7          0x0
>>> > Total             0x8db3b
>> 
>> I see nothinig illegal the above: .text, .*data, .bss do seat silent in
>> the RAM its total size about 40K.
>> 
>>> > iii)
>>> > 
>>> > We need to look on a startup screen your RedBoot
>>> > 
>>> > <copy and paste a starup-screen the below>
>>> > 
>>> > RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]           
>>> > Non-certified release, version v3_0 - built 09:17:39, Apr  7 2009
>>> >                                                             
>>> > Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
>>> 2009
>>> > Free Software Foundation, Inc.                              
>>> > RedBoot is free software, covered by the eCos license, derived from
>>> the
>>> > GNU General Public License. You are welcome to change it and/or
>>> distribute
>>> > copies of it under certain conditions. Under the license terms,
>>> RedBoot's
>>> > source code and full license terms must have been made available to
>>> you.
>>> > Redboot comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.                  
>>> > 
>>> > Platform: ST STM3210E EVAL (Cortex-M3) 
>>> > RAM: 0x68000000-0x68100000 [0x68003188-0x68100000 available]
>>> >      0x20000000-0x2000f000 [0x20000000-0x2000f000 available]                    
>> What's a nice board! IMHO, it's very suitable for eCos. You have ~1M of
>> a volatile memory.
>> 
>>> > Note: I want to know a bit more about your RAM location and its size.
>>> > RedBoot talks about.
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > Sergei
>> 
>> Graham, let's resume what you've got:
>> 
>> 1) You have arm-eabi GNU toolchain with it you are able to build eCos
>>    applications.
>> 
>> 2) You have a nice bootstrap environment with GDB support -- RedBoot.
>> 
>> 3) You are able using X-modem protocol and minicom to upload the images
>>    into RAM. IMHO, if you can to load a test image in a few hundreds of
>>    Kb into the RAM, your GDB must do it too.
>> 
>> Before to start debug GDB protocol, dance with packet's sizes, etc. My
>> the first guess: you misconfigured eCos build. I do not know how you
>> configured eCos build. I do not know what you check/uncheck using eCos
>> `configtool'.
>> 
>> So, can you reproduce the below just in Linux bash?
>> 
>> i. Build a minimal eCos stuff as
>> 
>> echo $ECOS_REPOSITORY >> report.txt
>> echo $PATH >> report.txt
>> cd /tmp
>> mkdir lab1
>> cd lab1
>> ecosconfig new stm3210e minimal
>> ecosconfig tree
>> make -s
>> make -s -C hal/common/current tests
>> ls -R install/tests >> report.txt
>> 
>> Note: attach the report.txt then.
>> 
>> 
>> ii. Leave minicom if it runs!
>> 
>> lsof /dev/ttyS0 ;# you must see no output
>> 
>> 
>> iii. Reset the board and invoke arm-eabi-gdb as
>> 
>> arm-eabi-gdb -q -nx install/tests/hal/common/current/tests/basic
>> 
>> 
>> iv. GDB
>> 
>> Now on GDB prompt type a line by a line (see the below)
>> 
>> (gdb) set logging on
>> (gdb) set remotebaud 38400
>> (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
>> 
>> Here you can to see that board connected, if gdb wait here, reset the
>> board and try `target' command again.
>> 
>> (gdb) load
>> 
>> I very hope that will be done. If it will, continue:
>> 
>> (gdb) b cyg_test_init
>> (gdb) b cyg_test_exit
>> (gdb) c
>> (gdb) c
>> 
>> 
>> Please, repeat the above lab1 exactly! And the report about the results:
>> attach report.txt, gdb.txt. The files should be in that /tmp/lab1
>> directory.
>> 
>> Sergei
>> 
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>> 
> 
> Hello Sergei
> This worked - I manged to run gdb
> So what was wrong with my first application? I did not change any settings
> in the config tool, just used a default configuration. You will see that I
> am still getting 'Ignoring packet error' and it seems to take quite a
> while to download.
> THnaks for you help so far  - what could be wrong with my original
> configuration?
> 
> Graham http://www.nabble.com/file/p22927519/report.txt report.txt 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p22927519/gdb.txt gdb.txt 
> 
Unfortunately this is not repeatable - just tried it again and it fails to
download!
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