using openocd + gdb to debug linux kernel on arm926ejs

Steve Chen schen at mvista.com
Wed May 26 15:41:34 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:12 PM, f. achkar <fachkar.datawind at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> This is my second posting (I'm not sure the first one passed the filter) sorry for that ...
>
> I'm newbie and have a s3c2450 based board (arm926ejs), I have a working compressed kernel image
> zImage, this image boots properly via u-boot-1.1.6, however I simply
> failed to debug remotely the vmlinux (root directory of linux source tree) via openocd-0.4.0 with a j-link segger.
> is there a good reference on how to properly debug the linux kernel via openocd/gdb for an arm target on a linux hot machine?

Actually, Nicolas Pitre posted an response in your first try.  In
summary, use uImage for uboot.  vmlinux won't work.

Regards,

Steve



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