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Re: Console-input & GDB
- To: Andrea Acquaviva <acquaviva at deis dot unibo dot it>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS]Console-input & GDB
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:33:19 +0100
- Cc: "ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <3A2CC1D3.7D650B4A@deis.unibo.it>
> in the eCos Reference Manual, pg. 117, I found that GDB remote
> protocol not allows console-input functionality for the
> applications. This means that is never possible to debug an
> application which requires such functionality, or is there any
> workaround?
This is one of those issues that comes up every so often. No its not
possible to use a serial port for both gdb and I/O. You either need
two serial ports, or you connect gdb to the target via some other
means like ethernet or maybe JTAG.
Andrew