Hello Andrea,
[u-boot-0.4.6]$ arm-linux-gdb u-boot GNU gdb 5.1.1 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "--host=i386-redhat-linux --target=arm-linux"... (gdb) target remote bdi:2001 Remote debugging using bdi:2001 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) symbol-file Discard symbol table from `/home/sorio/Devel/UBoot/u-boot-0.4.6/u-boot'? (y or n) y No symbol file now. (gdb) add-symbol-file u-boot 0x0 add symbol table from file "u-boot" at .text_addr = 0x0 (y or n) y Reading symbols from u-boot...done. (gdb) b start_armboot Breakpoint 1 at 0x80000cb4: file board.c, line 214. (gdb) x/16i 0x0 0x0: b 0x54 0x4: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x20 0x8: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x24 0xc: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x28 0x10: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x2c 0x14: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x30 0x18: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x34 0x1c: ldr pc, [pc, #20] ; 0x38 0x20: andmi r0, r0, r0, lsl #2 0x24: andmi r0, r0, r0, ror #2 0x28: andmi r0, r0, r0, asr #3 0x2c: andmi r0, r0, r0, lsr #4 0x30: andmi r0, r0, r0, lsl #5 0x34: andmi r0, r0, r0, ror #5 0x38: andmi r0, r0, r0, asr #6 0x3c: cdple 14, 10, cr11, cr13, cr15, {7} (gdb)
The breackpoint is set to "0x80000cb4", so the bdi never stop! My code is built to run on 0x40000000 address. Any idea?
It is just something I seem to remember, but can you try to do the symbol-file manipulations _before_ you give the "target remote" command? I know it sounds unlikely, but I think I stumbled across something like this before.
Cheers Detlev