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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: mx <mxmxmx0429@qq.com>, gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to remote debug a multicore system of which each core has different instruction set arch?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:54:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDCyPqPQzs22XTxV@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acbc7e0b-bef1-bfd7-9153-d9b9abdd345d@symas.com>

On 20 Feb 2021 02:46, Howard Chu wrote:
> mx via Gdb wrote:
> > Is it possible to remote debug a multicore system of which each core has different instruction set arch? For example if I have a two core chip, one core is cortex-m3, the other is riscv-i32. Or if I can debug multiple chip at the same time, each of which is different arch? I think this feature is important, since in the future there will be more debug situations like this.
> 
> If such a heterogeneous hardware system exists, the different cores will necessarily be running different
> OS images. So treat it as debugging two physically separate machines, nothing different from today.

fwiw, this situation isn't theoretical.  TI makes an ARM + C6X SoC
combo where both run Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_DaVinci
-mike

      reply	other threads:[~2021-02-20  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-20  2:31 mx
2021-02-20  2:46 ` Howard Chu
2021-02-20  6:54   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]

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