GDB Server for interacting with RISC-V models, boards and FPGAs

This repository is part of the complete Embecosm RISCV tool chain.

This tool should be built using the scripts in the RISCV tool chain repo. Check that out using:

git clone https://github.com/embecosm/riscv-toolchain.git

or if you have write permission to the repo, you can use SSH:

git clone [email protected]:embecosm/riscv-toolchain.git

Then follow the instructions in the README for that repo. If you wish to just build the gdbserver, then you can disentangle the individual commands from the scripts in the riscv-toolchain repo.

Start the riscv-gdbserver, specifying the core to use and the port on which to connect:

riscv-gdbserver -c ri5cy 51000

In a separate terminal, invoke gdb with the binary you wish to run:

riscv32-unknown-elf-gdb dhry.elf

At the gdb prompt, enter the following:

target remote :51000
load
display /i $pc
stepi

This connects to the gdbserver, loads the dhry.elf binary and executes the first instruction.

You can now continue stepping through with the stepi command.

To see the RSP packets being sent and received, type the following at the gdb prompt:

set debug remote 1

If you wish to set a breakpoint at main and continue until you hit it:

break main
continue

After the breakpoint has been hit, you can continue running until the end of the program or just do further stepi commands first.

Since this is being developed from the ground up, it does not yet have a doc directory. It will be added in the future