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Re: question of Gdbstub for NECVR4373 board
>>>>> "Jifl" == Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com> writes:
Jifl> Bart Veer wrote:
>>
Ling> <3>. I found a minor buggy point of the eCos Configure
Ling> tools, even I change the configuration of gdb serial speed
Ling> to 9600B, when I run tests, it still "set remotebaud 38400".
Ling> I feel it will be more convenient if this can be consistent
Ling> with what I configured.
>>
>> The various host-side tools (configtool, gdb, ...) have been developed
>> independently. At some point they may start interacting via e.g. a
>> CORBA backplane, and things like setting the baud rate correctly will
>> just work. I have no idea when anything like that is likely to happen.
>>
>> Of course gdb is used for many different systems, not just eCos. It
>> cannot be changed in ways that will affect the ability to debug other
>> systems.
Jifl> I think Ling was referring to the "Run Tests" functionality
Jifl> - it runs GDB and passes the baud rate in.
The whole testing area needs a lot more work than just having the
config tool look for some option that corresponds to the baud rate -
especially since the option name appears to be platform-specific. For
example consider ethernet-based debugging, or more generic device
driver testing.
IMO we need to move to a script-based solution of some sort, which
will require a serious amount of design and implementation.
Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer