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15 years ago

Debug multi thread application with Gdbserver on uClinux

Hi, I'm trying to debug a simple multi thread application with Gdbserver on uClinux no-mmu. The board is ALTERA NEEK-evb. I can debug with no problem a process without threads. when trying to ...
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15 years ago

I don't know what you mean with "multi-core-programs", but if you mean "multi-thread applications, I did not test this myself, but in fact this is what I found in several discussions.

If you are talking about multi-core hardware: Linux for NIOS is not able to do SMP. And due to limitations of the NIOS architecture, I doubt that we will see an SMP-Linux for same any time soon.

-Michael