Remote debugging

Feb 07, 2004 5 Replies
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Remote debugging


Greetings,



My Linux runes on x86 based SBC with custom build frame grabber and data acquisition on PCI.


I am debugging undocumented codes which have been messed with from 10 persons in past 8 years. 



I can not set breakpoint and debug it on my machine as application needs frame grabber, I/O and few more things.


I know remote debugging is possible on Ethernet. Can some one please suggest how I can debug my application on my original hardware from development machine on Ethernet?


Thanks in advance


Rushi


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See the GDB manual for Remote Debugging.

There is a program called gdbstub in the GDB package. You need to run it in the target system and connect to it from the host system running the GDB user interface part.

To use the Ethernet connection you need a working TCP/IP stack in oth computers. The GDB remote connection can use TCP to transport the data.

HTH

Tauno Voipio tauno voipio @ iki fi

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Good advice. Except that, IIRC, the program is called "gdbserver".

(Again, IIRC), gdbserver can also be set up to connect through a serial connection.

Rob

Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser AT sysgo DOT com SYSGO AG http://www.elinos.com Klein-Winternheim / Germany http://www.sysgo.com
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  1. Right - I should have checked and not relied on memory. A custom thing doing the same is called a GDB stub (I'm using such a tool to remote debug ARM code with a PC host and serial connection).
  2. The OP asked for Ethernet connection.

Tauno Voipio tauno voipio @ iki fi

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Thanks lads,

I will give it a go soon

Cheers

Rush

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