debugger

[Frank]

I don't mind getting dirty. as a matter of fact i prefer to work
in the dirt. That's why I'm looking at linuxbios.:-)
I come from a ppc and mips world where debuuger's are a lot more
plentiful and cheaper. What is a "POST card"...
--- jarcher <jarcher at pobox.com> wrote:
> To add to Ron's message.
> 
> It varies a lot with your experience and how dirty you want to
> get.
> 
> A simple POST card and a lot of creative POST code bread
> crumbs is the 
> cheap and dirty way to go, until you get the serial port
> debugger up and 
> running.  But it requires you to be really creative in
> crawling through the 
> code.  And takes a lot of time.
> 
> But you can move up the a logic analyzer looking at bus cycles
> or an ICE 
> (in circuit emulator) looking at CPU activity  These two are
> expensive 
> (lots of $10K), but you can often rent them.  Setup is usually
> the time 
> burner here.  But with a LA you can take selective pictures of
> events 
> chained together in time.  I don't know if SIS has an ICE for
> their SOC 
> products.
> 
> Jordan
> 
> PS: Has anyone done a USB interface low level debugger?  Early
> BIOS or at 
> least just prior to payload decompress.
> 
> 
> At 12:00 PM 5/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Message: 10
> >Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Frank <frannk_m1 at yahoo.com>
> >Subject: Re: debugger
> >To: ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov>
> >Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> >
> >sis55x SOC x86 based
> >--- ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 May 2003, Frank wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can anyone recommend a debugger for bringing up
> LinuxBios on
> > > an
> > > > x86 system...
> > >
> > > what kind of chip? and how much money can you spend?
> > >
> > > ron
> 
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