Re: Is it possible to remote debug a multicore system of which each core has different instruction set arch?

On 20 Feb 2021 02:46, Howard Chu wrote:
> mx via Gdb wrote:
> > Is it possible to remote debug a multicore system of which each core has different instruction set arch? For example if I have a two core chip, one core is cortex-m3, the other is riscv-i32. Or if I can debug multiple chip at the same time, each of which is different arch? I think this feature is important, since in the future there will be more debug situations like this.
> 
> If such a heterogeneous hardware system exists, the different cores will necessarily be running different
> OS images. So treat it as debugging two physically separate machines, nothing different from today.

fwiw, this situation isn't theoretical.  TI makes an ARM + C6X SoC
combo where both run Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_DaVinci
-mike