Building Genode for Gumstix Overo platform

[Michael Grunditz]

On 02/16/2012 03:55 PM, Michael Grunditz wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 02:27 PM, Stefan Kalkowski wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On 16.02.2012 14:07, Michael Grunditz wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am also porting Genode to a new ARM board. Right now I am stuck with libc. It just halts with abort() as soon as it initiates. I cannot use GDB at this stage. Is there any other way of debuging this ? Adding prints to libc doesnt work since this problem is when libc init starts.
>> that sounds like you're getting an exception at that point.
>
>  I guessed that
>> If you're using the Fiasco.OC kernel together with Genode you can of
>> course use it's included kernel-debugger, which is quiet feature-rich.
>> You can invoke it by hand via the serial line by pressing escape, or you
>> put a 'enter_kdebug("WAIT")' snippet at appropriate places of your code
>> resp. libc initialization. Therefore you've to include the following before:
>>
>>   namespace Fiasco {
>>   #include <l4/sys/kdebug.h>
>>   }
>>
>> I fear the kernel-debugger's usage isn't that self-explanatory, but you
>> can start playing around after looking at the help-screen via '?'.
>> Something often useful is dumping the stacktrace of a thread via 'bt'.
>> To get meaningful symbols instead of plain addresses there is a small
>> tool in 'base-foc/contrib/kernel/fiasco/tool/backtrace'.
> Just so I understand this : backtrace is used like , cat bt.txt |
> ./backtrace /path/to/bin ?
> I am a little bit confused over which binary I should compare to , i.e.
> I don't get any match.
>
Ok so I got matches in the kernel. Thanks , at least it gives me a hint
on where to start looking.