Re: [ECOS] GDB stub for RAM startup.

[Ottawa Guy <ottawaguy81 at yahoo dot com>]

Hi Nick,
Thanks for your input. After looking at your comments.
I thought I could just compile GDB stubs. Following
are the things I did. 
 
1. Inside my vector.S file, before calling cyg_start.
I have the following code 

#ifdef CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_INCLUDE_STUBS
        call      initialize_stub
#endif

2. Inside my generic exception handle. I have the
following. 
void cyg_hal_exception_handler()
{
#ifdef CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_INCLUDE_STUBS
    
    __handle_exception();
#endif 
..
}

Now I am assuming if I build my gdb stub. It would
build my application and inco-orparte generic-stub.c
file. At the BSP level  initialize_stub()function get
called, which will initialize my serial debug port and
send some control character("+"). 


What I am not sure of is, I don't see any code
listening on the serial port for any gdb command
request.
Only during an exception,  "__handle_exception"  get
called. I thought "__handle_exception" should be also
be hooked to the interrupt handler of the serial port.
That way when a serial character from the gdb client
comes in, and interrupt would get raised and the gdb
stub would get called.. (Right ?) 

Any idea..


Many thanks in advance.
                  Ottawa 
 












--- Nick Garnett <nickg@ecoscentric.com> wrote:
> Ottawa Guy <ottawaguy81@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I am using sparc leon board. This board comes with
> > serial port, PCI interface and DSU software.
> > 
> > Using the DSU software I can download an "elf"
> file
> > into the board's memory and reset the PC to start
> > executing. All I want is to use the serial port
> for
> > debug (gdb). 
> > 
> > I have ported the
> CYGINT_HAL_VIRTUAL_VECTOR_SUPPORT.
> > So that I could configure the serial port.
> > 
> > I have the following question.
> > 
> > 1. My application is only "RAM" startup. Do I need
> > include  "ROM-MONITOR" package or REDBOOT package
> 
> RAM startup generally means that it expects to have
> been loaded by a
> ROM monitor, so it will probably not do a full
> initialization of the
> hardware. You may be able to get it to do a full
> initialization by
> disabling CYGSEM_HAL_USE_ROM_MONITOR, but that does
> not work in all
> HALs.
> 
> 
> > 2. In the platform specific *.cdl file . I have
> the
> > following 
> > 
> >   cdl_option CYGBLD_BUILD_GDB_STUBS {
> >             display "Build GDB stub RAM image"
> >             default_value 0
> >             requires { CYG_HAL_STARTUP == "RAM" }
> >             requires
> > CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_INCLUDE_STUBS
> >            }
> > 
> > Do I need anything else under the "Required"
> claused. 
> >
> 
> CYGBLD_BUILD_GDB_STUBS is for building a very
> cut-down ROM monitor
> that only contains the GDB remote protocol stubs and
> nothing
> else. It is not used much any more. You probably
> don't need it.
> 
> 
> > 3. What is  "CYGINT_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_STUBS_BREAK"
> 
> It is part of the support for allowing ^C to be used
> from GDB to
> interrupt a running program.
> 
> > Can someone tell me what else I am missing.
> >             Ottawa
> 
> The main problem is that you are trying to do
> something that under
> normal circumstances is not possible. Applications
> are normally
> started from the reset vector and run from ROM, or
> are loaded by
> something else and run from RAM. Applications don't
> usually find
> themselves in RAM in an otherwise uninitialized
> machine. Hence we have
> very little support for this kind of thing.
> 
> Your best bet is to simply build a ROM application
> and change the load
> addresses in the .ldi file to place it all in RAM.
> Or fake it and
> pretend that the top 512k of RAM is really ROM and
> just build a ROM
> application that starts from there.
> 
> -- 
> Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel
> Architect
> http://www.ecoscentric.com      The eCos and RedBoot
> experts
> 
> 
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