On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > If you want more of a "large format" mipsel platform > to experiment with, you might be able to find an old > "RISC PC" from Siemens or NEC with an R4000 > configured little-endian to run NT. Maybe Ralf has > one in his attic he'd care to sell you. ;o) Unfortunately no. Since Thomas Bogendoerfer stopped maintaining the Olivetti support the support for MIPS Magnum 4000, MIPS Millenium, Olivetti M700-10 and Acer PICA is rotting away ... > I've never used gdbserver myself. I did manage to get > some use out of the old 2.2-style kernel gdb hooks. > I don't know that it's the root of your problem, but > you should definitely get getty/shells off of whatever > serial port you're trying to use for debug. In theory, > there are protocols to multiplex serial ports between > gdb streams and other stuff, but I've never had any > luck with them. You may also need to make sure that > you're starting gdb and gdbserver in the right order. > Certainly, that was the case when booting with kgdb. We have a special GDB console kernel option which is meant to support exactly that kind of gdb + console multiplexing. Ralf
