[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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