[ale] Gdb Stub for embedded Linux

[Chris Fowler]

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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:46 -0400, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I'm working with a Linux app based on an embedded target (2.4.20 kernel on 
> 32-bit l.e. MIPS). I would like to install a 'remote gdb' stub to download 
> and debug applications by ethernet from my Linux build-and-work-station. 
> What 'gdb' component should I be building for that? The full resident 
> 'gdb' is too big to be convenient and in any case its not what I want: 
> sources and symbols are on the workstation.
> 
> I do want to insert my stub at the embedded Linux shell level, not closer 
> the hardware nor underneath Linux itself: AFAIK the apps in question can 
> all be run and debugged at that level. (They are normally launched out of 
> '/etc/inittab' and no kernel modules are being changed.)
> 
> Thanks for any comments.
> 
>   - Mills
> 
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