Hardware debuggers for PPC74xx G4 CPUs

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Nov 14 08:59:23 EST 2007


On 11/13/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On 11/13/07, Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher at gmx.net> wrote:
> > I'm trying to debug a kernel lockup that occurs on my machine with all kernel
> > versions >2.6.16. I don't have a clue what the root cause of this lockup is,
> > thus I'm thinking about using a hardware debugger. Can anybody recommend a
> > reasonably cheap hardware debugger that works with G4 CPUs and can interact
> > with GDB/DDD?
>
> Abatron BDI-2000.

Oops, but that's not all that cheap.  ($2750USD).  You might try
looking at the Macraigor Wiggler
(http://www.macraigor.com/wiggler.htm), but it has limited powerpc
support.

Cheers,
g.

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