Gdb Over Serial

[Chris Johns]

gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:

> James Yates writes:
> 
>  > Has Anyone run rtems with GDB over a serial connection.
> 
> Its known to work on the MIPS Mongoose- it should be portable to other
> MIPS bsp's as well- I think bsp's for a number of other architectures
> also support it.  
> 

I have used the GDB remote protocol with RTEMS on various 68000 processors.

> 
> I don't think copying around vector tables is the right sort of thing
> to be doing- perhaps you're trying to set it up too early in the RTEMS
> boot process?
> 

If the interrupts are masked and during startup or exit I think it is 
valid to move a vector table. This could be a copy or a change in the 
VBR. I would not exclude doing it as a rule.

-- 
  Chris Johns, cjohns at cybertec . com . au