Re: [oc] Re: gdb port to or1k

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: jtc@r...  (J.T. Conklin) 
To: "Marko Mlinar" <Marko.Mlinar@c... > 
<gdb@s... >, <cores@o... > 
Date: 26 Apr 2001 15:04:37 -0700 
Subject: [oc] Re: gdb port to or1k 

> 
> 
> >>>>> "Marko" == Marko Mlinar 
> <Marko.Mlinar@c... > writes: 
> Marko> Our first plan is to prepare remote debugger using JTAG 
> via 
> Marko> parallel port. First question - does anybody know if 
> /dev/lp0 
> Marko> or such are compatibile across platforms (including IOCTL 
> Marko> function read_status 0x060b, I think). 
> 
> No. 
> 
> Many host systems that GDB supports don't even have parallel ports. 
> Those that do don't suport the same set of capabilites (other than 
> open/close and write, those are pretty standard :-). 
> 
> Marko> I am new to gdb community, so I would appreciate any kind 
> of 
> Marko> help, especially coders ;) 
> 
> I don't have enough bandwidth free to directly contribute, but I'll 
> be 
> available to advise when the time comes.  I suspect that many of 
> the GDB 
> hackers are in the same boat, but I'll let them speak for 
> themselves. 
> 
>         --jtc 
> 
> -- 
> J.T. Conklin 
> RedBack Networks 
>