Revision as of 19:56, 29 March 2012

GDB Interface

coreboot has an easy to use interface to the GNU debugger gdb. To enable it, select the CONFIG_GDB_STUB option in the Debugging menu of coreboot's configuration:

[*] GDB debugging support

Then you will not get exceptions like this:

Unexpected Exception: 0 @ 10:0012724b - Halting
Code: 0 eflags: 00010046
eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000061 ecx: 00000004 edx: 00000000
edi: 00000000 esi: 00000061 ebp: 00163abc esp: 00163a98

But instead you will be able to connect to the machine using gdb over a serial line in case of an exception:

(gdb) file coreboot/build/coreboot_ram.debug
Reading symbols from coreboot/build/coreboot_ram.debug...done.
(gdb) set remotebaud 115200
(gdb) target remote /dev/ttyUSB0
Remote debugging using /dev/ttyUSB0
0x0012824b in __udivdi3 (n=17082841390, d=0) at ...
...
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0012824b in __udivdi3 (n=17082841390, d=0)
    at /usr/lib/gcc/gcc- 4.3.2/libgcc/../gcc/libgcc2.c:899 
#1  0x0011efa2 in handle_port_61h ()
#2  0x0011fbc3 in my_inb ()
#3  0x001189f5 in x86emuOp_in_byte_AL_IMM ()
#4  0x001092f1 in X86EMU_exec ()
#5  0x0010a06f in biosemu ()
#6  0x0011fcfb in run_bios ()
#7  0x0010cbcb in pci_dev_init ()
#8  0x00103d9b in dev_initialize ()
#9  0x0010f8b5 in hardwaremain ()
#10 0x00100099 in _text ()

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 = GDB Interface =
-coreboot has an easy to use interface to the GNU debugger gdb. To enable it, add the following two lines to your mainboard's Options.lb:
+coreboot has an easy to use interface to the GNU debugger gdb. To enable it, select the CONFIG_GDB_STUB option in the Debugging menu of coreboot's configuration:
+  [*] GDB debugging support
- uses CONFIG_GDB_STUB
- ...
- default CONFIG_GDB_STUB=1
-'''NOTE:''' You need to put the '''uses''' line into the uses-section of the Options.lb, and the '''default''' line into the configuration section, or the coreboot config tool will print an error.
-Compiling coreboot with debugging symbols might help:
- Index: src/config/Config.lb
-  ===================================================================
- --- src/config/Config.lb	(revision 1578)
- +++ src/config/Config.lb	(working copy)
- @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
-  makedefine GCC_INC_DIR := $(shell LC_ALL=C $(GCC) -print-search-dirs | sed -ne "s/install: \(.*\)/\1include/gp")
-  makedefine CPPFLAGS := -I$(TOP)/src/include -I$(TOP)/src/arch/$(ARCH)/include -I$(GCC_INC_DIR) $(CPUFLAGS)
- -makedefine CFLAGS := $(CPU_OPT) $(DISTRO_CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -Os -nostdinc -nostdlib -Wall -Wundef ...
- +makedefine CFLAGS := $(CPU_OPT) $(DISTRO_CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -O2 -g -nostdinc -nostdlib -Wall -Wundef ...
-  if ASSEMBLER_DEBUG
-  makedefine DEBUG_CFLAGS := -g -dA -fverbose-asm
 Then you will not get exceptions like this:
@@ Line 33: / Line 13: @@
 But instead you will be able to connect to the machine using gdb over a serial line in case of an exception:
-  (gdb) file coreboot-v2/coreboot-builds/kontron_986lcd-m/fallback/coreboot_ram
+  (gdb) file coreboot/build/coreboot_ram.debug
-  Reading symbols from coreboot-v2/coreboot-builds/kontron_986lcd-m/fallback/coreboot_ram...done.
+  Reading symbols from coreboot/build/coreboot_ram.debug...done.
   (gdb) set remotebaud 115200
   (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyUSB0

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