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diff --git a/Documentation/user/debugging.rst b/Documentation/user/debugging.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15cb439043 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/user/debugging.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Debugging with OpenOCD +====================== + +Barebox can be configured to break on prebootloader and main barebox entry. This +breakpoint can not be resumed and will stop the board to allow the user to +attach a JTAG debugger with OpenOCD. Additionally, barebox provides helper +scripts to load the symbols from the ELF binaries. +The python scripts require `pyelftools`. +To load the scripts into your gdb session, run the following command in the +barebox directory: + +.. code-block:: none + + (gdb) source scripts/gdb/helper.py + +This makes two new commands available in gdb, `bb-load-symbols` and +`bb-skip-break`. `bb-load-symbols` can load either the main `barebox` file or +one of the .pbl files in the image directories. The board needs to be stopped in +either the prebootloader or main barebox breakpoint, and gdb needs to be +connected to OpenOCD. To continue booting the board, `bb-skip-break` jumps over +the breakpoint and continues the barebox execution. |