Makefile changes for symbols

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Oct 22 13:45:01 CEST 2004


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Alternatively it might be work adding gdb stubs into LinuxBIOS.  And doing
> using a remote debugger that way.  What a jtag interface provides
> is really not much more than what gdb stubs provides.  At least
> not after memory is initialized.

that's not quite correct. There are a host of cpu failures you can detect 
with a jtag interface that gdb stubs are useless for. GDB stubs requires 
that the processor be basically sane, jtag interfaces are not near as 
picky.

ron



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