GDB-5.2 and Wiggler

[Thomas Doerfler]

Hi Steven,

maybe you should have a look at the interfaces from abatron,

www.abatron.com

they a re not SO expensive, and quite versatile. And they can 
speak native gdb debug protocol.

wkr,
	Thhomas.

> Unfortunately Motorola decided to make the MPC745 debug port OCD instead of 
> BDM.  The info needed to talk to the OCD (on chip debug) through the JTAG 
> port is only available under NDA.
> 
> To make it even more fun the Macraigor Wiggler (an reportedly all of their 
> products) does not support the MPC745 in 32-bit data bus mode.  Wanna guess 
> in what mode my highly space constrained board is running?  Here's a 
> hint:  every other long word is 0 when I dump memory with the Wiggler.... :(
> 
> We're currently using Windriver's visionICE but they don't support GDB 
> (they have their own protocol to go from their source code debugger to the 
> debug box).
> 
> Never a dull moment when working on embedded projects...
> 
> At 11:23 AM 10/17/2002 -0700, Phil Torre wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:39:15PM +0000, grunzasr at netzero.com wrote:
> > > But what is the command you use to talk to the Wiggler?  Do you have a
> >Wiggler.DLL or Wiggler.dll or Wigglers.DLL ... someplace in your system?
> > >
> > > Any info (.gdbinit stuff, command line stuff, anything) would be quite
> >helpfull.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > Steven G.
> >
> >I've had both the Wiggler and the Raven working with gdb-4.18 under
> >Cygwin on a windoze box, even though they're kind of flakey.  I
> >also played with the package on www.ocdemon.com for Linux, but
> >never got it working reliably.  (I see on the web site that they
> >claim only the EDemon and Raven work with Linux.  Also, the Linux
> >version is Linux-specific, so if you're using *bsd you'd be out
> >of luck.)
> >
> >If you don't mind building a little hardware, take a look at
> >bdm4gdb.sourceforge.net.  It works quite well, is faster than the
> >Wiggler, and we have it running for both Linux and OpenBSD.
> >
> >-Phil
> >
> >
> >

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