> Wow, microblaze has a forum?!?  I sure wish Altera would take a que and do
> the same for Nios.

Why not bypass Altera and start a yahoo group for the Nios?

Steve

Hi John!

John Williams wrote:

> They're there, but for some reason Xilinx makes them very hard to find:
> 
> http://www.xilinx.com/guest_resources/gnu/index.htm

Thanks a lot for that link! I just grabbed the file. 
I expected that this stuff is somewhere available due to the GPL.
But I can also understand why the source code is not being actively
promoted... 

>> Actually, I would like to use the debugger under native
>> Linux with ddd frontend rather than inside a VMware with
>> Windows/Cygwin as I'm doing it right now.
> 
> The source package at the address I just gave has the entire toolchain
> source for the EDK, microblaze and PPC, binutils, gcc, gdb and so on.
> 
> We've successfully rebuilt binutils and gdb under linux native, so it
> definitely can be done.

So far, I'm already using a gcc-3.3.1 as compiler (cross-compiler under 
x86-Linux) and it is working fine.
Perhaps I can adopt the Xilinx-changes of gdb-5.1 to the recent gdb.

Again, thanks for your help.

Regards,
Mario 

Kenneth Land wrote:
> "emanuel stiebler" <emu@ecubics.com> wrote in message
> news:3f60e67a$0$28899$afc38c87@...
> 
>><snip>
>>You can ask the same question again on the microblaze forum on xilinx
>><snip>
> 
> 
> Wow, microblaze has a forum?!?  I sure wish Altera would take a que and do
> the same for Nios.

Yes, except that web-based fora are, almost without exception, clumsy 
and painful to use.

> A quick perusal of the Xilinx forums shows a lot of discussion of the type I
> would like to have about the Nios.  Not really important enough to inject
> into this general group (comp.arch.fpga) but of interest to other Nios
> users.

Every now and then I ponder the prospect of refloating the 
comp.arch.reconfigurable RFC....  the last time this was raised there 
was some vigourous discussion (google has it all), but the idea 
eventually died.

Regards,

John

"emanuel stiebler" <emu@ecubics.com> wrote in message
news:3f60e67a$0$28899$afc38c87@...
> <snip>
> You can ask the same question again on the microblaze forum on xilinx
><snip>

Wow, microblaze has a forum?!?  I sure wish Altera would take a que and do
the same for Nios.

A quick perusal of the Xilinx forums shows a lot of discussion of the type I
would like to have about the Nios.  Not really important enough to inject
into this general group (comp.arch.fpga) but of interest to other Nios
users.

Sorry to interrupt the thread.  On Altera's site you can find the link to
the gnupro sources by searching the knowledge base.

Ken

I wrote:

> The source package at the address I just gave has the entire toolchain 
> source for the EDK, microblaze and PPC, binutils, gcc, gdb and so on.

Let me clarify: the package contains sources for gcc, gdb and binutils, 
for both Microblaze and PPC.

John

Hi Mario,

Mario Trams wrote:
> Dear fellows,
> 
> according 
> http://www.xilinx.com/ise/embedded/gdb_debugger.htm
> Xilinx has slightly modified the gdb used for debugging of the 
> VirtexIIPro PPC405.
> 
> Doeas anybody know whether there are Sources or at least 
> patches of/for this gdb laying around somewhere?
> I couldn't find anything so far and I guess that they are 
> not publicly available.

They're there, but for some reason Xilinx makes them very hard to find:

http://www.xilinx.com/guest_resources/gnu/index.htm

> Actually, I would like to use the debugger under native 
> Linux with ddd frontend rather than inside a VMware with 
> Windows/Cygwin as I'm doing it right now.

The source package at the address I just gave has the entire toolchain 
source for the EDK, microblaze and PPC, binutils, gcc, gdb and so on.

We've successfully rebuilt binutils and gdb under linux native, so it 
definitely can be done.

Regards,

John

Dear fellows,

according 
http://www.xilinx.com/ise/embedded/gdb_debugger.htm
Xilinx has slightly modified the gdb used for debugging of the 
VirtexIIPro PPC405.

Doeas anybody know whether there are Sources or at least 
patches of/for this gdb laying around somewhere?
I couldn't find anything so far and I guess that they are 
not publicly available.

Actually, I would like to use the debugger under native 
Linux with ddd frontend rather than inside a VMware with 
Windows/Cygwin as I'm doing it right now.

So far, I tried to use a standard gdb-5.3. It is working
"a little bit", but does show up some problems 
(of course, obviously the reason why Xilinx modified it).

Thanks for any comments!

Regards,
Mario