Remote Debugging

[Wu, Mark H.]

Thanks. I have a little experience using redboot with eCos, which we were just getting working several years ago. I was hoping that RTEMS had something similar.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Johns [mailto:chrisj at rtems.org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 19:45
To: Wu, Mark H.; users at rtems.org
Subject: Re: Remote Debugging

On 15/05/2015 1:24 am, Wu, Mark H. wrote:
> I'm evaluating RTEMS for use on a project I'm working on, and have several questions. I'll probably use 4.11, but since the documentation is only available for 4.10, I'll ask regarding the documentation.
> 
> The target platform we plan to use is x86. I've built RTEMS with --enable-rdbg, but the resulting target.cfg and bsp.cfg in
> $(exec_prefix)/$(RTEMS_BSP)/make/bsp.cfg
> Show 
> 
> RTEMS_HAS_RDBG = no (target.cfg)
> HAS_RDBG = no (bsp.cfg)
> 
> Is there no rdbg support in the x86 platform?
> 

I cannot see any support in the 4.11 sources. The code use to be part of
Till's pages he supported outside of the RTEMS project. I am not across
the current state of that code.

> I've also been looking for documentation on how to use and configure rdbg (and the server needed for it), and I haven't had much luck. The RTEMS/GDB User's Guide isn't in the documentation as of version 4.8, so I don't know if it's still valid. I'm also specifically looking for debugging over Ethernet.
> 
> Any help or pointers would be appreciated!
> 

Personally I have been using a serial port and I mean a real RS232 DB9
port on an old Dell box to debug on x86. I have not done any work on x86
for a while.

I had the PXE loader load a networked grub build I made and that loaded
the kernel over the network and it breaks in the serial gdb stub so I
can connect gdb. It has been great using a serial port because it is
simple but it is showing its age.

It would be nice to have an alternative to this but there is nothing
happening in RTEMS project I know of. I would like to see users
interested in x86 platform contact me directly about possible solutions
for better support for debugging.

The Atom devices have a JTAG based debug protocol called ITP which is
covered by NDA and so there are no open source solutions. I talked to
Intel about this and it went no where.

Chris