Re: Regarding ICE/IDE for use while porting NetBSD onto PowerPC based board

[Erik Änggård <erik.anggard%packetfront.com@localhost>]

Hi Yogi,

We previously also used VisionProbe for debugging our powerpc-cards but 
we were very unhappy with it.
After that we got an Abatron BDI2000 
(http://www.abatron.ch/BDI/bdihw.html) that we are very content with. It 
has a simple telnet command line interface and you can also connect gdb 
to it. We have only used it when developing our bootloader and for 
programming flash memory. It could be a bit tricky to get it to work for 
kernel-debbuging since the kernel runs with the MMU on. There is a 
section in the manual on how to do it for linux-kernels  so maybe it is 
possible to adapt that to get it to work with NetBSD.

/Erik


YOGI wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I wanted to know what will be the ICE/IDE to use while porting NetBSD onto
> one of the PowerPC based board.
>
>  Some time back when we ported pSOS+ to one of the PowerPC based board we
> used VisionProbe(debugger, IDE) & JTAG interface for debugging. Similarly
> what will be the debugging tool/software & devices we have to use here...?
> The Board supports JTAG interface.
>
>  Is that debugger available in NetBSD, i,e in netbsd.org...?
>
> Thanks in advance for any inputs.
>
> Thanks,
> Yogi
>
>  
>
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