Questions about PSIM

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill)]

CARERI/SEG wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
>         We have downloaded the C-tools for ??PowerPC-rtems?? for
> platform Linux and cygwin.
> And there are the tools: powerpc-rtems-gdb and powerpc-rtems-run(PSIM) .
> But after I tried some times, I am still puzzled:
>         What the PSIM can do? Can it be used with GDB to simulate the
> executing of each instruction
> and to set breakpoints on the instruction? 

Yes.  It is an instruction set simulator for the PowerPC.  The 
RTEMS BSP named "psim" runs all RTEMS tests on the simulator.

> So I can debug the PowerPC
> program on my Linux or
> Cygwin host.

Yes.

>         If it can , how to do it ?

See the getting started guide and in the tests directory when
you build is "psim" and "psim-gdb" that invoke powerpc-rtems-run
and powerpc-rtems-gdb with the proper arguments. 

> Any help would be thankful.
> 
> Su Wenming

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