General question : Debugging Kernel on PPC

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Arshad, Farrukh
<Farrukh_Arshad at mentor.com> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I have general question regarding kernel debugging on PowerPC platform.
> Except printk what are other ways for kernel / kernel modules debugging on
> PowerPC architecture (i.e P1022DS/RDK boards). I am specifically referring
> to the option of connecting hardware probe and debug the kernel / kernel
> module via gdb/kgdb or some IDE. Please suggest any probe & IDE which
> provide this facility.

BDI(2|3)000 and gdb works pretty well, then there are USBTAPs from
Freescale and CodeWarrior. You could also use an RTL simulator like
simics for this part which has a lot of advanced features.

-M