[coldfire-gnu-discuss] m68k-elf-sprite 4.2-125 crashing

[Seymour David-RA2693]

We've been having issues with the version of P&E USB BDM firmware.  You
might register on www.pemicro.com and download the latest BDM test
utility and firmware to see if that helps.
Regards, 
David 


David E Seymour

http://www.freescale.com/coldfire


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Sidwell [mailto:nathan at codesourcery.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:26 AM
To: Matt Cohn
Cc: coldfire-gnu-discuss at codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [coldfire-gnu-discuss] m68k-elf-sprite 4.2-125 crashing

Matt Cohn wrote:
> Hia,
> 
> I am debugging a M52233DEMO board using the P&E USB BDM.  I connect to
it via m68k-elf-sprite.  I turned on the verbose console and put the
sprite in verbose mode, and here's the problem I'm experiencing.
> 
> Usually debugging will work fine for a while.  I will be able to
continue, suspend, step, break, and continue again without problems.
After leaving the program running for a while (a couple minutes) or
doing a lot of stepping (anywhere, not in one particular place) I will
experience the following.  
> 
> If the code was running and I try to do a suspend, m68k-elf-sprite
uses a lot of CPU and doesn't respond.  Eventually GDB times out with
"Target request failed: Failed to interrupt".  During this there is no
response on the console.

> I should also note that occasionally (about 1/5th of the time) when
programming my board using CF Flasher, it will hang, timeout, fail
validation and need to be flashed again.  Flashing again works fine.  I
have tried disconnecting all of my USB devices, using a different USB
port, and killing all background processes and services to no avail.
Any advice is sincerely appreciated.

This sounds very much like a hardware problem, because you're getting it
from two independent software tools.

nathan

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