Hardware debuggers for PPC74xx G4 CPUs

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 09:10:29 EST 2007


On 11/13/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Here are the choices:
http://www.macraigor.com/cpus.htm


>
> Cheers,
> g.
>
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