Re: [microblaze-uclinux] (RNH) Real Novice Here

[Wade.Maxfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Wade,

Wade.Maxfield@computalog.com wrote:

>>    I'm new to this list.  I'm working with a "nu horizons" board, and
have
>> yet to get linux to boot past the "calibrating delay loop."  One of our
>> hardware gurus built a microblaze into the Spartan II - 400 on this
board,
>> and made the dynamic ram refresh work.

>Welcome!

<snip>

  Thanks!

>BTW You can start xmd and mb-gdb after the board has booted and hung.
>Just launch xmd, do your mbconnect, then follow the mb-gdb kernel
>debugging instructions on the website.  Once it connects, it will
>magically trap the microblaze where in the kernel source it is currently
>hung, great for doing retrospective "what went wrong?" analysis.
>Commands like "info stack" will show you the stack unwind, how you got
>into the current predicament!  "frame nn" where is is the stack frame
>number allow you to inspect local variables and parameters in the
>various stack frames etc.


  The instructions on the website indicate an "fsl" bus that we don't have.
Is this critical?

  I had already tried the visual debugger, and got the instruction pointer
and msr register (which is why I knew the interrupts were enabled), but no
disassembly of code, just a blank screen.



>Anyway hope this helps to get you moving again.

  I appreciate what you have done!!

  BTW, our brain dead email client might possibly be sending your email
addr in the clear.  I'm unable to do anything about that from what I can
tell.  Hello spam. Yuk.
wade


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