[ECOS] target sim arm-elf eCos development enviornment

[Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>]

I'm having a bit of difficulty finding the necessary information to use the
arm-elf-gdb target sim environment to prototype my eCos application.

I've plowed through a fair amount of eCos/mailing lists, etc.,
but where can I find out more?


Øyvind



There are lots of questions I'm trying to find an answer to:

- I created an eCos application for the eb40a, and the simulator seems
to be running it(see below). This is amazing, but I don't understand how
the GDB simulator could possibly know about the eb40a hardware.
- I've got a redboot.elf image I was able to run from RAM on my EB40a 
board. Can I run it in the simulator? 
- Does the GDB simulator have the ability to simulate/redirect
hardware(e.g. serial ports)?
- I saw non-arm platforms seemed to have seperate build
enviornments for the simulators. Does this mean that I need a seperate 
"ecosconfig new arm-gdb-sim" build environment?


Below is a session of an experiment I tried.


- Created an eCos application build environment


ecosconfig new eb40a default
ecosconfig tree
make


- Created a small hello.c


- Compiled and linked the hello.c with the eCos build environment above


- Launched the hello app in GDB:


oharboe@lair /cygdrive/c/e21/workspace/ecoshello
$ arm-elf-gdb hello
GNU gdb 5.3 (eCosCentric)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=arm-elf"...
(gdb) target sim --board=eb40a
Connected to the simulator.
(gdb) load
Loading section .rom_vectors, size 0x40 vma 0x2000
Loading section .text, size 0xfd2c vma 0x2040
Loading section .rodata, size 0x304 vma 0x11d6c
Loading section .data, size 0x348 vma 0x12070
Start address 0x2040
Transfer rate: 531904 bits in <1 sec.
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x24c4: file hello.c, line 5.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /ecos-C/e21/workspace/ecoshello/hello
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x160ac) at hello.c:5
5               printf("hello!\n");
(gdb)

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