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Debugging on ARM Base FVP

Mohannad Ismail over 5 years ago

Hello,

I would like to know how do I attach gdbserver to my ARM Base FVP for debugging. All tutorials online explain using DS-5. I would like to use gdb since I am more comfortable with it. I already enabled networking on my FVP.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Mohannad Ismail

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Rob Kaye over 5 years ago +1

GDB can be connected to Fast Models (& FVPs) using the extension (plugin) described here: https://developer.arm.com/docs/100964/1110/plug-ins-for-fast-models/gdbremoteconnection . This doesn't get delivered...
Ronan Synnott over 5 years ago +1 suggested

Hello, I wrote an older blog on booting a Linux distribution on an FVP, which I believe still applies. See the command options used to enable networking etc https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software...
Ronan Synnott over 5 years ago in reply to Mohannad Ismail +1 verified

Hi Mohannad, DS-5 (and now Arm Development Studio) are the toolchains from Arm, hence my blog(s) on these products. However for this specific case of application debug, a standard gdb debug connection...