AW: GDB Server for Xilinx Microblaze

["Hoefle Marco" <Marco dot Hoefle at nanotronic dot ch>]

Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
Xilinx won't support officially any Linux related issues (I used to work in the support center and Linux cases were the easy cases: sorry not supported)

So the Microblaze support in GDB 7.2 is for debugging standalone applications together with XMD only or would it work together with a cross-compiled gdb server?

Embedded distributors like bluecat or petalogix have ported GDB for Linux on Microblaze but the free old versions (at least from petalogix) had quite an old GDB + gdbserver which didn't work properly (slow and crashes when embedding them in an eclipse environment)

So do you have any hints for me how to proceed to get a new GDB + gdbserver up?

Thanks,
Marco




 


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Michael Eager [mailto:eager@eagerm.com] 
Gesendet: Montag, 28. Februar 2011 16:40
An: Hoefle Marco
Betreff: Re: GDB Server for Xilinx Microblaze

Hoefle Marco wrote:
> Hello,
> we are using Linux running on a Xilinx Microblaze in a FPGA.
> It runs fine but we lack proper debugging (we are doing it old school
> like: printfs...),
> so modern stuff like code stepping within an eclipse cdt environment
> would be greatly appreciated :-)
> Thus I had a look into the new GDB7.2 sources and I saw that there is
> some Microblaze stuff in the GDB source itself.
> So from my understanding I can use GDB 7.2 on my Debian Workstation and
> all I need is to cross-compile the gdb server?
> I tried it but it seems that cross-compiling the GDB Server is not a
> trivial task as it looks to me that there is no support for the
> Microblaze.
> Can somebody instruct me how to get the GDB server running on the
> Microblaze?
> We are running the latest stable Mainline Linux Kernel (2.6.37) and the
> GCC cross compiler is version 4.1.2.

Hi Marco --

I support the MicroBlaze tools, but only the non-Linux versions.
You should contact Xilinx Technical Support with your questions.

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