[ECOS] Applied Microsystems SuperTAP ICE

[ECOS] Applied Microsystems SuperTAP ICE

[Joe Buczek]

Is anyone aware of an existing open source tool to convert eCos ELF target
output file(s) to a format that the CAD-UL XDB debugger uses? This is the
debugger that comes with the Applied Microsystems SuperTAP for 486.

CAD-UL sell what they call a "gcc filter" for about $2000, described as
follows:

>>CAD-UL DBG2BD filter to use XDB with GNU C/C++ Compiler V2.7
>>and V2.9 (a.out/STABS++, COFF/STABS++ or ELF/STABS++). Is
>>shipped without the CAD-UL Linker, works with GNU Linker

All I want to do is use the ICE's overlay memory to load the eCos image. I
want to use gdb for actual debugging.

Thanks for any help,
--Joe Buczek

Re: [ECOS] Applied Microsystems SuperTAP ICE

[Bart Veer]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buczek <jbuczek@buczek.com> writes:

    Joe> Is anyone aware of an existing open source tool to convert
    Joe> eCos ELF target output file(s) to a format that the CAD-UL
    Joe> XDB debugger uses? This is the debugger that comes with the
    Joe> Applied Microsystems SuperTAP for 486.

I am afraid I do not know what format that debugger expects. If it is
a proprietary format then you are probably out of luck. If it can cope
with a well-known format such as s-records then objcopy (part of GNU
binutils, you will have built it as part of the toolchain build) may
prove useful.

Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer

Re: [ECOS] Applied Microsystems SuperTAP ICE

[Grant Edwards]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:31:35PM -0700, Joe Buczek wrote:

> Is anyone aware of an existing open source tool to convert eCos
> ELF target output file(s) to a format that the CAD-UL XDB
> debugger uses? This is the debugger that comes with the Applied
> Microsystems SuperTAP for 486.

[...]

> All I want to do is use the ICE's overlay memory to load the
> eCos image. I want to use gdb for actual debugging.

I've never seen an in-circuit emulator that didn't accept
either Intel-hex or S-record files -- some also accept raw
binary files.

Since this is for an Intel processor, I'd try Intel hex first.

Use objcopy to convert from elf to ihex.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com