debugger

[sklavo]

I was curious about that one also.

Jordan

At 09:55 AM 5/16/2003 +0800, ollie lho wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 01:23, jarcher 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.
> >
>
>BTW, why didn't we come up with a GDB stub in LinuxBIOS ??
>
>--
>ollie lho <ollie at sis.com.tw>