Re: [ECOS] ARM Development with multi-ice from South Africa

["David Airlie" <David dot Airlie at parthus dot com>]

the Multi-ICE is backways compatible in the sense of you can debug old
code with newer ICE, it isn't compatible in the sense of you can use
parallel stuff with it ,... it doesn't if I remember correctly speak RDI
over parallel.....

So I think the point you are missing is you can't use gdb with Multi-ICE,
without writing some code that sits on the Windows PC and acts like a
gdb-server and makes RDI calls via the windows DLL on the PC, 

What I can't understand however is why RH don't release the non-building
source code to their gdb-multi-ice server thingy, as a lesson to the
reader, then someone who has the ARM include files already can build it,
or maybe someone who doesn't have them can write something that
approximates a clean room version of them, or maybe something that takes
the DLL and build some class of header file from it ...

Dave.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Rajeev murthy wrote:

> dear Grant,
>       thanks for the reply. we found that multiICE is backward compatible 
> with embeddedICE from this site http://www.kimstek.co.kr/new-h/tools/multi_ice.html.
>      but multiICE has a parallel port interface. is it possible 
> to change the gdb sources to make it use a parallel port interface? 
> if so , please give me some inputs.
>   thanks a lot
>    rajeev
> 
> --
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:35:53  
>  Grant Edwards wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:41:04PM +0530, Rajeev murthy wrote:
> >
> >> i wanted to know from you how you are using the embeddedICE
> >> with the gdb5.0(Insight5.0). 
> >
> >First, you need to have a gdb binary that was built for arm
> >targets.  Then you connect using a command like:
> >
> >gdb> target rdi /dev/ttyS0 19200
> >   or
> >gdb> target rdi s=/dev/ttyS0,p=/dev/par0 19200
> >
> >Once connected, most of the gdb commands work as usual, except
> >you use the "continue" command to start execution after you
> >load a file:
> >
> >gdb> symbol-file myprog.elf
> >gdb> load myprog.elf
> >gdb> cont
> >
> >> i have a multiICE with me which i believe can be made to work
> >> as an embeddedICE.
> >
> >I don't have any experience with MultiICE, but I don't believe
> >it's compatible with EmbeddedICE.  At one point there was a a
> >library that could be used to get gdb to work with MultiICE,
> >but there were licensing problems.
> >
> >See:
> >
> >http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-01/msg00171.html
> >http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2001-02/msg00254.html
> >
> >According to the posting below, multiICE support for gdb hasn't 
> ever been
> >released:
> >
> >http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2001-q1/msg00166.html
> >
> >-- 
> >Grant Edwards
> >grante@visi.com
> 
> 
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