Re: Coldfire V2 devices and serial debuggers

Matt Waddel <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:53:01 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.motorola.microcontrollers.coldfire
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Hi Harjit,

Is this a platform that's running uClinux like M52277?  If it is, you can=
 run
gdbserver/gdb via a serial connection.

Best regards,
Matt

Harjit Singh wrote:
> Has anyone got a serial debugger running on a Coldfire V2 MCF52xxx devi=
ce?
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> A while back I read that dBug supports the GDB protocol and dBug is a=20
> serial debugger. But all posts I have seen, seem to be about using a BD=
M=20
> based debugger.
> =20
> The reason a serial debugger is prefered to a BDM based debugger is tha=
t=20
> I'm doing some robotics work and I can make the servo code run at a=20
> higher interrupt level than the serial debugger and this will allow me=20
> to debug code with servos running.
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> BDM is too intrusive and it will cause the servos to go nuts.
> =20
> The CF debug docs say that BDM theoretically will steal cycles but=20
> everything I have read says tha the BDM debuggers halt the CPU...
> =20
> Thanks in advance.
> Harjit
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