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author | Roland Pesch <pesch@cygnus> | 1991-09-20 21:43:19 +0000 |
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committer | Roland Pesch <pesch@cygnus> | 1991-09-20 21:43:19 +0000 |
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/interim-gdbinv-s.m4 b/gdb/doc/interim-gdbinv-s.m4 new file mode 100755 index 0000000..82de97a --- /dev/null +++ b/gdb/doc/interim-gdbinv-s.m4 @@ -0,0 +1,427 @@ +_dnl__ -*- Texinfo -*- +_dnl__ Copyright (c) 1990 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +_dnl__ This file is part of the source for the GDB manual. +@c M4 FRAGMENT $Id$ +@c This text diverted to "Remote Debugging" section in general case; +@c however, if we're doing a manual specifically for one of these, it +@c belongs up front (in "Getting In and Out" chapter). +_if__(_I960__) +_if__(!_GENERIC__) +@node i960-Nindy Remote, EB29K Remote, Mode Options, Starting _GDBN__ +_fi__(!_GENERIC__) +_if__(_GENERIC__) +@node i960-Nindy Remote, EB29K Remote, Remote, Remote +_fi__(_GENERIC__) +@subsection _GDBN__ with a Remote i960 (Nindy) + +@cindex Nindy +@cindex i960 +@dfn{Nindy} is a ROM Monitor program for Intel 960 target systems. When +_GDBN__ is configured to control a remote Intel 960 using Nindy, you can +tell _GDBN__ how to connect to the 960 in several ways: + +@itemize @bullet +@item +Through command line options specifying serial port, version of the +Nindy protocol, and communications speed; + +@item +By responding to a prompt on startup; + +@item +By using the @code{target} command at any point during your _GDBN__ +session. @xref{Target Commands}. + +@end itemize + +@menu +* Nindy Startup:: Startup with Nindy +* Nindy Options:: Options for Nindy +* Nindy reset:: Nindy Reset Command +@end menu + +@node Nindy Startup, Nindy Options, i960-Nindy Remote, i960-Nindy Remote +@subsubsection Startup with Nindy + +If you simply start @code{_GDBN__} without using any command-line +options, you are prompted for what serial port to use, @emph{before} you +reach the ordinary _GDBN__ prompt: +@example +Attach /dev/ttyNN -- specify NN, or "quit" to quit: +@end example +@noindent +Respond to the prompt with whatever suffix (after @samp{/dev/tty}) +identifies the serial port you want to use. You can, if you choose, +simply start up with no Nindy connection by responding to the prompt +with an empty line. If you do this, and later wish to attach to Nindy, +use @code{target} (@pxref{Target Commands}). + +@node Nindy Options, Nindy reset, Nindy Startup, i960-Nindy Remote +@subsubsection Options for Nindy + +These are the startup options for beginning your _GDBN__ session with a +Nindy-960 board attached: + +@table @code +@item -r @var{port} +Specify the serial port name of a serial interface to be used to connect +to the target system. This option is only available when _GDBN__ is +configured for the Intel 960 target architecture. You may specify +@var{port} as any of: a full pathname (e.g. @samp{-r /dev/ttya}), a +device name in @file{/dev} (e.g. @samp{-r ttya}), or simply the unique +suffix for a specific @code{tty} (e.g. @samp{-r a}). + +@item -O +(An uppercase letter ``O'', not a zero.) Specify that _GDBN__ should use +the ``old'' Nindy monitor protocol to connect to the target system. +This option is only available when _GDBN__ is configured for the Intel 960 +target architecture. + +@quotation +@emph{Warning:} if you specify @samp{-O}, but are actually trying to +connect to a target system that expects the newer protocol, the connection +will fail, appearing to be a speed mismatch. _GDBN__ will repeatedly +attempt to reconnect at several different line speeds. You can abort +this process with an interrupt. +@end quotation + +@item -brk +Specify that _GDBN__ should first send a @code{BREAK} signal to the target +system, in an attempt to reset it, before connecting to a Nindy target. + +@quotation +@emph{Warning:} Many target systems do not have the hardware that this +requires; it only works with a few boards. +@end quotation + +@end table + +The standard @samp{-b} option controls the line speed used on the serial +port. + +@node Nindy reset, , Nindy Options, i960-Nindy Remote +@c @group +@subsubsection Nindy Reset Command +@table @code +@item reset +@kindex reset +For a Nindy target, this command sends a ``break'' to the remote target +system; this is only useful if the target has been equipped with a +circuit to perform a hard reset (or some other interesting action) when +a break is detected. +@end table +@c @end group +_fi__(_I960__) + +_if__(_AMD29K__) +_if__(!_GENERIC__) +@node EB29K Remote, VxWorks Remote, i960-Nindy Remote, Starting _GDBN__ +_fi__(!_GENERIC__) +_if__(_GENERIC__) +@node EB29K Remote, VxWorks Remote, i960-Nindy Remote, Remote +_fi__(_GENERIC__) +@subsection _GDBN__ with a Remote EB29K + +@cindex EB29K board +@cindex running 29K programs + +To use _GDBN__ from a Unix system to run programs on AMD's EB29K +board in a PC, you must first connect a serial cable between the PC +and a serial port on the Unix system. In the following, we assume +you've hooked the cable between the PC's @file{COM1} port and +@file{/dev/ttya} on the Unix system. + +@menu +* Comms (EB29K):: Communications Setup +* _GDBP__-EB29K:: EB29K cross-debugging +* Remote Log:: Remote Log +@end menu + +@node Comms (EB29K), _GDBP__-EB29K, EB29K Remote, EB29K Remote +@subsubsection Communications Setup +The next step is to set up the PC's port, by doing something like the +following in DOS on the PC: +_0__@example +C:\> MODE com1:9600,n,8,1,none +_1__@end example +@noindent +This example---run on an MS DOS 4.0 system---sets the PC port to 9600 +bps, no parity, eight data bits, one stop bit, and no ``retry'' action; +you must match the communications parameters when establishing the Unix +end of the connection as well. +@c FIXME: Who knows what this "no retry action" crud from the DOS manual may +@c mean? It's optional; leave it out? ---pesch@cygnus.com, 25feb91 + +To give control of the PC to the Unix side of the serial line, type +the following at the DOS console: +_0__@example +C:\> CTTY com1 +_1__@end example +@noindent +(Later, if you wish to return control to the DOS console, you can use +the command @code{CTTY con}---but you must send it over the device that +had control, in our example over the @file{COM1} serial line). + +From the Unix host, use a communications program such as @code{tip} or +@code{cu} to communicate with the PC; for example, +@example +cu -s 9600 -l /dev/ttya +@end example +@noindent +The @code{cu} options shown specify, respectively, the linespeed and the +serial port to use. If you use @code{tip} instead, your command line +may look something like the following: +@example +tip -9600 /dev/ttya +@end example +@noindent +Your system may define a different name where our example uses +@file{/dev/ttya} as the argument to @code{tip}. The communications +parameters, including what port to use, are associated with the +@code{tip} argument in the ``remote'' descriptions file---normally the +system table @file{/etc/remote}. +@c FIXME: What if anything needs doing to match the "n,8,1,none" part of +@c the DOS side's comms setup? cu can support -o (odd +@c parity), -e (even parity)---apparently no settings for no parity or +@c for character size. Taken from stty maybe...? John points out tip +@c can set these as internal variables, eg ~s parity=none; man stty +@c suggests that it *might* work to stty these options with stdin or +@c stdout redirected... ---pesch@cygnus.com, 25feb91 + +@kindex EBMON +Using the @code{tip} or @code{cu} connection, change the DOS working +directory to the directory containing a copy of your 29K program, then +start the PC program @code{EBMON} (an EB29K control program supplied +with your board by AMD). You should see an initial display from +@code{EBMON} similar to the one that follows, ending with the +@code{EBMON} prompt @samp{#}--- +_0__@example +C:\> G: + +G:\> CD \usr\joe\work29k + +G:\USR\JOE\WORK29K> EBMON +Am29000 PC Coprocessor Board Monitor, version 3.0-18 +Copyright 1990 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. +Written by Gibbons and Associates, Inc. + +Enter '?' or 'H' for help + +PC Coprocessor Type = EB29K +I/O Base = 0x208 +Memory Base = 0xd0000 + +Data Memory Size = 2048KB +Available I-RAM Range = 0x8000 to 0x1fffff +Available D-RAM Range = 0x80002000 to 0x801fffff + +PageSize = 0x400 +Register Stack Size = 0x800 +Memory Stack Size = 0x1800 + +CPU PRL = 0x3 +Am29027 Available = No +Byte Write Available = Yes + +# ~. +_1__@end example + +Then exit the @code{cu} or @code{tip} program (done in the example by +typing @code{~.} at the @code{EBMON} prompt). @code{EBMON} will keep +running, ready for _GDBN__ to take over. + +For this example, we've assumed what is probably the most convenient +way to make sure the same 29K program is on both the PC and the Unix +system: a PC/NFS connection that establishes ``drive @code{G:}'' on the +PC as a file system on the Unix host. If you don't have PC/NFS or +something similar connecting the two systems, you must arrange some +other way---perhaps floppy-disk transfer---of getting the 29K program +from the Unix system to the PC; _GDBN__ will @emph{not} download it over the +serial line. + +@node _GDBP__-EB29K, Remote Log, Comms (EB29K), EB29K Remote +@subsubsection EB29K cross-debugging +Finally, @code{cd} to the directory containing an image of your 29K +program on the Unix system, and start _GDBN__---specifying as argument the +name of your 29K program: +@example +cd /usr/joe/work29k +_GDBP__ myfoo +@end example +Now you can use the @code{target} command: +@example +target amd-eb /dev/ttya 9600 MYFOO +@end example +@c FIXME: test above 'target amd-eb' as spelled, with caps! caps are meant to +@c emphasize that this is the name as seen by DOS (since I think DOS is +@c single-minded about case of letters). ---pesch@cygnus.com, 25feb91 + +@noindent +In this example, we've assumed your program is in a file called +@file{myfoo}. Note that the filename given as the last argument to +@code{target amd-eb} should be the name of the program as it appears to DOS. +In our example this is simply @code{MYFOO}, but in general it can include +a DOS path, and depending on your transfer mechanism may not resemble +the name on the Unix side. + +At this point, you can set any breakpoints you wish; when you're ready +to see your program run on the 29K board, use the _GDBN__ command +@code{run}. + +To stop debugging the remote program, use the _GDBN__ @code{detach} +command. + +To return control of the PC to its console, use @code{tip} or @code{cu} +once again, after your _GDBN__ session has concluded, to attach to +@code{EBMON}. You can then type the command @code{q} to shut down +@code{EBMON}, returning control to the DOS command-line interpreter. +Type @code{CTTY con} to return command input to the main DOS console, +and type @kbd{~.} to leave @code{tip} or @code{cu}. + +@node Remote Log, , _GDBP__-EB29K, EB29K Remote +@subsubsection Remote Log +@kindex eb.log +@cindex log file for EB29K +The @code{target amd-eb} command creates a file @file{eb.log} in the +current working directory, to help debug problems with the connection. +@file{eb.log} records all the output from @code{EBMON}, including echoes +of the commands sent to it. Running @samp{tail -f} on this file in +another window often helps to understand trouble with @code{EBMON}, or +unexpected events on the PC side of the connection. +_fi__(_AMD29K__) + +_if__(_VXWORKS__) +_if__(!_GENERIC__) +@node VxWorks Remote, , EB29K Remote, Starting _GDBN__ +_fi__(!_GENERIC__) +_if__(_GENERIC__) +@node VxWorks Remote, , EB29K Remote, Remote +_fi__(_GENERIC__) +@subsection _GDBN__ and VxWorks +@cindex VxWorks +_GDBN__ enables developers to spawn and debug tasks running on networked +VxWorks targets from a Unix host. Already-running tasks spawned from +the VxWorks shell can also be debugged. _GDBN__ uses code that runs on +both the UNIX host and on the VxWorks target. The program +@code{_GDBP__} is installed and executed on the UNIX host. + +The remote debugging interface (RDB) routines are installed and executed +on the VxWorks target. These routines are included in the VxWorks library +@file{rdb.a} and are incorporated into the system image when source-level +debugging is enabled in the VxWorks configuration. + +@kindex INCLUDE_RDB +Defining @code{INCLUDE_RDB} in the VxWorks configuration file +@file{configAll.h} includes the RDB interface routines and spawns the +source debugging task @code{tRdbTask} when VxWorks is booted. For more +information on configuring and remaking VxWorks, see the @cite{VxWorks +Programmer's Guide}. + +Once you have included the RDB interface in your VxWorks system image +and set your Unix execution search path to find _GDBN__, you are ready +to run _GDBN__. From your UNIX host, type: + +@smallexample +% _GDBP__ +@end smallexample + +_GDBN__ will come up showing the prompt: + +@smallexample +(_GDBP__) +@end smallexample + +@menu +* VxWorks connection:: Connecting to VxWorks +* VxWorks download:: VxWorks Download +* VxWorks attach:: Running Tasks +@end menu + +@node VxWorks connection, VxWorks download, VxWorks Remote, VxWorks Remote +@subsubsection Connecting to VxWorks + +The _GDBN__ command @code{target} lets you connect to a VxWorks target on the +network. To connect to a target whose host name is ``@code{tt}'', type: + +@smallexample +(_GDBP__) target vxworks tt +@end smallexample + +_GDBN__ will display a message similar to the following: + +@smallexample +Attaching remote machine across net... Success! +@end smallexample + +_GDBN__ will then attempt to read the symbol tables of any object +modules loaded into the VxWorks target since it was last booted. +_GDBN__ locates these files by searching the directories listed in the +command search path (@pxref{Environment}); if it fails to find an +object file, it will display a message such as: + +@smallexample +prog.o: No such file or directory. +@end smallexample + +This will cause the @code{target} command to abort. When this happens, +you should add the appropriate directory to the search path, with the +_GDBN__ command @code{path}, and execute the @code{target} command +again. + +@node VxWorks download, VxWorks attach, VxWorks connection, VxWorks Remote +@subsubsection VxWorks Download + +@cindex download to VxWorks +If you have connected to the VxWorks target and you want to debug an +object that has not yet been loaded, you can use the _GDBN__ @code{load} +command to download a file from UNIX to VxWorks incrementally. The +object file given as an argument to the @code{load} command is actually +opened twice: first by the VxWorks target in order to download the code, +then by _GDBN__ in order to read the symbol table. This can lead to +problems if the current working directories on the two systems differ. +It is simplest to set the working directory on both systems to the +directory in which the object file resides, and then to reference the +file by its name, without any path. Thus, to load a program +@file{prog.o}, residing in @file{wherever/vw/demo/rdb}, on VxWorks type: + +@smallexample +-> cd "wherever/vw/demo/rdb" +@end smallexample + +On _GDBN__ type: + +@smallexample +(_GDBP__) cd wherever/vw/demo/rdb +(_GDBP__) load prog.o +@end smallexample + +_GDBN__ will display a response similar to the following: + +@smallexample +Reading symbol data from wherever/vw/demo/rdb/prog.o... done. +@end smallexample + +You can also use the @code{load} command to reload an object module +after editing and recompiling the corresponding source file. Note that +this will cause _GDBN__ to delete all currently-defined breakpoints, +auto-displays, and convenience variables, and to clear the value +history. (This is necessary in order to preserve the integrity of +debugger data structures that reference the target system's symbol +table.) + +@node VxWorks attach, , VxWorks download, VxWorks Remote +@subsubsection Running Tasks + +@cindex running VxWorks tasks +You can also attach to an existing task using the @code{attach} command as +follows: + +@smallexample +(_GDBP__) attach @var{task} +@end smallexample + +where @var{task} is the VxWorks hexadecimal task ID. The task can be running +or suspended when you attach to it. If running, it will be suspended at +the time of attachment. + +_fi__(_VXWORKS__) |