Hi Luca,
Hi nick, hi all I tried and build the ARM simulator, but I really was never able to get it working for an arm-linux-pxa270-softfloat-gnu platform (forgive the fantasy name). Am I missing something? I thought that the simulator was working just with not-so-modern arm platforms and, most of all, not with OS (linux) support.
The ARM simulator used by GDB is not a platform simulator at all. It does not simulate any boards or test environments. It only simulates an ARM CPU. Hence it is not really possible to simulate an entire OS using it.
The simulator's purpose is to allow testing and debugging of ARM code generated by GCC and that is all. So it should be sufficient for you if you just want to test the generation of new instructions, but if you want to test these instructions in an simulated run-time environment then you are going to need another tool. You might like to look at the SID project:
http://sources.redhat.com/sid/
Alternatively there are commercial simulators that are out there as well.
Cheers Nick
