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Re: Coldfire V2 devices and serial debuggers

by Matt Waddel :: Rate this Message:

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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 device?
>  
> A while back I read that dBug supports the GDB protocol and dBug is a
> serial debugger. But all posts I have seen, seem to be about using a BDM
> based debugger.
>  
> The reason a serial debugger is prefered to a BDM based debugger is that
> I'm doing some robotics work and I can make the servo code run at a
> higher interrupt level than the serial debugger and this will allow me
> to debug code with servos running.
>  
> BDM is too intrusive and it will cause the servos to go nuts.
>  
> The CF debug docs say that BDM theoretically will steal cycles but
> everything I have read says tha the BDM debuggers halt the CPU...
>  
> Thanks in advance.
> Harjit
>
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