[oe] Building multiple gdb-cross targets
Leon Woestenberg
leon.woestenberg at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 20:23:29 UTC 2008
Hello,
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Geoffrey Wossum <geoffrey at pager.net> wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2008 12:58:42 pm Stelios Koroneos wrote:
> > I think you are missing the point
> >
> > "bare-metal" gdb does not have any bindings with
> > glibc/uclibc/eglibc/whatever-libc because its (usually) used to build a
> > system with no OS (standalone apps).
> > You also need a "bare-metal" toolchain i.e toolchain that generates code
> > that can run on the board without any OS (this was the case in most
> > embedded designs before linux become "embedded")
>
> Yeah, needing a baremetal gdb to debug makes perfect sense when you stop and
I think we should try to achieve the other-way-around-approach, which is:
Add system register support to the Linux GDB for AVR32.
This way, we are done and don't need the bare-metal stuff. I'll look
into that some more once I start on AVR32 myself.
Regards,
--
Leon
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