kgdb on mpc834x

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 00:11 +0000, Reeve Yang wrote:
> I applied kgdb patch for 2.6.13 to kernel 2.6.14 (since there is no
> patch for 2.6.14), but gdb client cannot connec to it. I turn on all
> necessary kernel hacking options. Our board is customized with
> MPC834x, can someoen who used kgdb to debug kernel on MPC834x help me
> out? Following are the message from linux boot and gdb client.
> 
> ## Booting image at ff300000 ...
> 
> loaded at:     FF300000 FFB71124
> relocated to:  00800000 01071124
> board data at: 007FFF70 007FFFF8
> relocated to:  00805114 0080519C
> zimage at:     00805915 00926A5E
> initrd at:     00927000 0106E242
> avail ram:     01072000 01472000
> 
> Linux/PPC load: mem=248M
> Uncompressing Linux...done.
> Now booting the kernel
> mpc834x_sys_init(): exit
> id mach(): done
> MMU:enter
> MMU:hw init
> MMU:mapin
> MMU:setio
> MMU:exit
> setup_arch: enter
> setup_arch: bootmem
> 
> (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
> Remote debugging using /dev/ttyS0
> Ignoring packet error, continuing...
> Ignoring packet error, continuing...
> Ignoring packet error, continuing...
> Malformed response to offset query, timeout

Try 'set debug serial 1' in GDB; it will show you the actual data GDB is
receiving.

-Hollis