Hi everyone, I am new to this whole stuff. I'm a student working on diploma thesis.
My goal is to have linux running on MBX board -WITHOUT- EPPC-Bug, booting diskless out of the flash-ROM and having a ramdisk and a flash-filesystem. I use a intel-linux-host and some days before got some LinuxPPC tools from Wolfgang Denk including working GNU cross-compiler and root filesystem which seem to be really helpful. I will need some help in the next months ... My first question is: How to make use of MPC's BDM (with a linux host), if possible via GDB ? I know that I need an adapter cable for the parallel port. Actually I have three of them: * a so-called "EBDI-Lite" from Motorola * a "CPU32"-cable which was used for debugging the 68360 with GDB * a very simple cable according to the suggestions of sergey drashnikov (found in graham stoneys mailing from Jan 27th, which I found really helpful. Graham, what is the URL for your HOWTO ?) I also know that I need some patches for the GDB. I have tested two variants so far: * Patches working for 68360 from Greg Ungerer. They look professional but there is no support for the 860 BDM, maybe I could adopt them. * Patches from Sergey Drashnikov for 860 who are very "quick and dirty" and didn't work out of the box (he tested under FreeBSD only). What would you suggest to do ? Is there any "ready-to-use"-solution ? I know that there are some commercial tools for Windows (Metrowerks, EST) but what about linux ? I thought about adopting the GDB-BDM patches for 360 to 860, but I cannot evaluate how much work it is. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Tobias ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
