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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:02:59 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To: Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>
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Subject: Re: reset the target machine with remote gdb.
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:10:41PM +0200, Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I am debugging a kernel with remote gdb, using
> a serial line. I do the following:
> 
> 1. boot -d, gdb, step (in target machine)
> 2. gdb -k kernel.debug
> 
> Some time later, I get a "SIGSEV segmentation fault".
> This is normal, because I am doing very changes to
> the kernel.
> 
> My question is the following. I would like to reboot
> the target machine without press the reset button,
> but I dont know if it is possible from the debugging
> machine to do this.
> 
> I am afraid that if I reboot with the reset-button
> of the box, I would lost data dont save on the disk.
> 
> Sorry for my bad english.

From DDB I usally call cpu_reset, it should also work with gdb.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
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