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
Xilinx-gdb Sources publicly available?
Started by ●September 11, 2003
Reply by ●September 11, 20032003-09-11
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
Reply by ●September 11, 20032003-09-11
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
Reply by ●September 11, 20032003-09-11
"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
Reply by ●September 11, 20032003-09-11
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
Reply by ●September 12, 20032003-09-12
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.htmThanks 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
Reply by ●September 16, 20032003-09-16