Xilinx-gdb Sources publicly available?

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

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

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

John

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Steve