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debugging linux kernel on arm926ejs target

DISCUSSION f. achkar 1 participant 1 message May 26, 2010

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greetings,

I'm newbie and have a s3c2450 based board (arm926ejs), I have a working compressed kernel image
zImage, this image boots properly via u-boot-1.1.6, however I simply
failed to debug remotely the vmlinux (root directory of linux source tree) via openocd-0.4.0 with a j-link segger. is there a good reference on how to properly debug the linux kernel via openocd/gdb for an arm target on a linux hot machine?

details:
1. let u-boot start the board;
2. I get the u-boot command prompt:

# bdinfo
      arch_number = 0x00000648
      env_t       = 0x00000000
      boot_params = 0x30000100
      DRAM bank   = 0x00000000
      -> start    = 0x30000000
      -> size     = 0x04000000
      DRAM bank   = 0x00000001
      -> start    = 0x38000000
      -> size     = 0x04000000
      ethaddr     = 00:40:5C:26:0A:5B
      ip_addr     = 192.168.3.5
      baudrate    = 115200 bps

3. halt the target via openocd/telnet;
4. cd to root directory of linux source code and issue:
gdb vmlinux
GNU gdb (GDB) 6.8.50.20090417
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
(gdb)

5.
(gdb) target remote localhost:3333
Remote debugging using localhost:3333
0xc3e01874 in ?? ()
0xc3e01874: ldr r3, [r0, #16]
(gdb)

6.
(gdb) set remote hardware-breakpoint-limit 2
(gdb) set remote hardware-watchpoint-limit 2

7.
(gdb) load
Loading section .init, size 0x7b000 lma 0xc0008000 Loading section .text, size 0x2bb618 lma 0xc0083000 Loading section __ksymtab, size 0x4a58 lma 0xc033f000 Loading section __ksymtab_gpl, size 0x1360 lma 0xc0343a58 Loading section __ksymtab_gpl_future, size 0x18 lma 0xc0344db8 Loading section __ksymtab_strings, size 0xcab7 lma 0xc0344dd0 Loading section __param, size 0x654 lma 0xc0351888 Loading section .data, size 0x21538 lma 0xc0352000 Start address 0xc0008000, load size 3582507
Transfer rate: 35 KB/sec, 15922 bytes/write.
(gdb)

8. if I do continue (gdb) c, then I don't see any output on the serial console (as normally do during zImage booting process!)

where I'm messing up?

thanks,
ferar