Firewire blues

[Gerald Heinig]

Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> There are two ways using kgdb to debug a target with firewire.
> The first way basically replaces the slow serial cable for communication
> to the remote target gdb stub.
> The second way uses the remote DMA capabilities of firewire to directly
> read memory of the target WITHOUT using any debugging software/stub on
> the target. (Think remote core file)
> 
> Greg Lehey wrote a nice kernel debugging tutorial that explains both
> types of firewire debugging.
> http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/Debug-tutorial/tutorial.pdf
> 
> This should get you started with only minor adjustments (gdb->kgdb) .

This is actually the paper I'm using. I've followed the instructions on 
both methods, but I can't get it to work. The direct machine-machine 
connection is fine (ie. the one with dconschat). It's the kgdb 
connection that doesn't work.
I presume it worked out of the box for you then?

Cheers,
Gerald