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Re: gdb remote debugging, other than serial port?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "William A. Gatliff" <bgat at billgatliff dot com>
- Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at attbi dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:40:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: gdb remote debugging, other than serial port?
- References: <20020630094255.A13008@attbi.com> <20020701121331.A22565@saturn.billgatliff.com>
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 12:13:31PM -0500, William A. Gatliff wrote:
> Craig:
>
>
> Well, I don't know about FreeBSD, but on my RH73 box, my USB-serial
> adapter didn't work. I'm not sure the problem is with gdb, however,
> as I didn't get minicom reliably to work either. :^(
It sounded like Craig wanted to use a kernel debugger; you can't do
that over a USB-serial device. On some platforms it is possible to
write a minimal Ethernet UDP driver for the task - we did so on ARM at
one point - but I don't know that i386 will let you get away with it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer