On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:05:36PM -0500, Siders, Keith wrote: > I am using x86 Linux for host development to a MIPS Linux embedded target. I > finally have a hardware debugger for my target board that works, but I have > to get large application files downloaded in a timely fashion. The debugger > must download to the target via JTAG, therefore downloads have lots of bits > of overhead, i.e. downloads are slow. Is there anything like a gdb server > that can I run on the target to connect to a remote client via ethernet? I > don't really want to have to compile a complete gdb tool to run on my target > board to do this. I don't have the luxury of a lot of memory on this board, > and no swap space (flash-based system, no hdd). The real catch is I would > like to be able to resolve the symbols of the application so the debugger > can be used to set hardware breakpoints, and provide source-level debugging > of the application. Or am I going about this totally bassackwards? There is an appropriate program. In fact, you even got the name right: it's called "gdbserver", and is included with the GDB distribution. I recommend you get GDB 5.2, released last week; the gdbserver included in that version is far superior for GNU/Linux targets to any previous release. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
