Re: USB support for GDB

["Kevin McGrath" <kevinmcgrath2003 at hotmail dot com>]

Would you use Micosofts WDM DDK, to assist in the development of the device 
drivers for the particular target system. Would the device driver be wrote 
at a layer below GDB & then use Win32 API calls to communicate with the 
Device Driver which in turn would communicate with the target device

> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> To: Sachin Bharadwaj <sachin@multitech.co.in>
> CC: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: USB support for GDB
> Date: 06 Oct 2003 13:33:49 -0500
>
>
> Sachin Bharadwaj <sachin@multitech.co.in> writes:
> > How do I start modifying Insight/GDB for communicating through USB. I
> > have a sample Linux USB driver, with which I want to interface the
> > Insight/GDB 5.1.
>
> I don't know anything about talking to USB devices, but I would guess
> that you would need to create a new serial_ops structure (see
> serial.h) pointing to functions that do the right thing, and call
> serial_add_interface to register it.
>
> Then you'll need to add a case to serial_open in serial.c to parse the
> argument to 'target remote'.

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