You mean to debug the kernel? Or a user-level application? You can use gdb at user level and that's usually enough. I don't know about debugging kernels on those boards though.
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Replace Keil/ARM tools
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I can't imagine how it would be useful for application development. For that, you run gdb-server on the target and then the gdb front-end on a desktop/laptop. [Actually, I generally do most of my debugging by running the application on a desktop before I try to run the app on target hardware.]
A JTAG debugger might be useful for debugging initialization and startup code. It's certainly useful for troubleshooting and testing hardware.
Good question.
In theory it _might_ be useful for kernel debugging, but Linux has other facilities for that.
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There is a special version of GDB, kgdb for kernel debugging.
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Assuming it's even possible... seems like it might be...
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I find Eclipse/GDB tedious and don't use them. This way, all my debug cruft is available should i need it at a site.
I'd rather pull the code out and run it in a test harness on a workstation for unit test, then put the code into a driver module. Yeah, I'll spend some time making test vectors and updating them from inferred or logged operation of the driver.
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