Thanks!<br><br> I did indeed mean to say "devrocket" when I said "MontaVista"<br><br> I went down the DDD/gdb route using the MontaVista command line tools. Their ppc_405-gdb connects to the abatron bdi2000 as a gdb server. I was able to get that to work to some extent.
<br><br> I did not ask my main question correctly enough. Let me rephrase.<br><br> My main question (for the MontaVista experts out there) is either<br><br> 1) In DevRocket, what kind of project do you choose to debug an externally build .elf file?
<br> MontaVista support engineers had no clue.<br><br> or<br><br> 2) How do you use DevRocket to create a cross compiled set of code linked to a specific address. <br> MontaVista support engineers also had no clue on this one.
<br><br> If either answer is no, OK. <br> <br> Now that I have the DDD/gdb/Abatron complex working, I don't think I absolutely need the DevRocket and its nice (but slow) facilities. It would be nice to do the cross compile under DevRocket, but the Xilinx EDK is doing just fine.
<br><br> I will look into uboot later, when I do another attempt at getting linux into the system.<br><br> I failed to mention that we have the system ace chip with a compact flash card, and it is apparently functional. It provides all the "flash" that we need. We do have some onboard flash for configuration data.
<br><br> Our project is simultaneously complex and simple. It is complex in what it does ( a complicated receiver based on latest DSL technology), but simple in the household chores (linux is almost overkill, but we do need ethernet and all that implies).
<br><br> Interesting we can get PPC linux into 16 meg. Once that happens, I'll try it again.<br><br>thanks,<br>wade<br> <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Angielski
</b> <<a href="mailto:jeff@theptrgroup.com">jeff@theptrgroup.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 10:11 -0600, Wade Maxfield wrote:
<br>><br>> I want to debug a ppc custom boot loader with Montavista (since we<br>> spent the money on it) under the Xilinx fx60.<br><br>Writing custom bootloaders is nontrivial. Are you sure you really want<br>
to do that?<br><br>And what does MV have to do with the bootloader?</blockquote><div><br><snip> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--<br>Jeff Angielski<br>The PTR Group<br><br></blockquote></div><br>