NOTE: This step is NOT required if prebuilt executables for the GNU Debugger GDB were installed.
The GNU Debugger GDB supports many configurations but requires some means of communicating between the host computer and target board. This communication can be via a serial port, Ethernet, BDM, or ROM emulator. The communication protocol can be the GDB remote protocol or GDB can talk directly to a ROM monitor. This setup is target board specific. The following configurations have been successfully used with RTEMS applications:
GDB is currently RTEMS thread/task aware only if you are using the remote debugging support via Ethernet. These are configured using gdb targets of the form CPU-RTEMS. Note the capital RTEMS.
It is recommended that when toolset binaries are available for your particular host, that they be used. Prebuilt binaries are much easier to install but in the case of gdb may or may not include support for your particular target board.
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