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texane committed Oct 14, 2011
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HOWTO
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First, load the sg kernel module.
First, you have to know there are several boards supported by the software.
Those boards use a chip to translate from USB to JTAG commands. The chip is
called stlink and there are 2 versions:
. STLINKv1, present on STM32VL discovery kits,
. STLINKv2, present on STM32L discovery and later kits.

2 different transport layers are used:
. STLINKv1 uses SCSI passthru commands over USB,
. STLINKv2 uses raw USB commands.

It means that if you are using a STM32VL board, you have to install and load
SCSI related software. First, load the sg kernel module:
# modprobe sg

On Ubuntu you need to install the package libsgutils2-dev:
Then, you need to install the package libsgutils2-dev. On Ubuntu:
# sudo apt-get install libsgutils2-dev

LIBUSB is required for both cases.

To run the gdb server, do (you do not need sudo if you have set up
permissions correctly):
$ make -C build && sudo ./build/st-util 1234 /dev/sg1
$ make -C build && sudo ./build/st-util [/dev/sgX]

Currently, the GDB server listening port is hardcoded to 4242:

Then, in gdb:
(gdb) target remote :1234
(gdb) target remote :4242

Have fun!

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You may reset the chip using GDB if you want. You'll need to use `target
extended-remote' command like in this session:
(gdb) target extended-remote localhost:1111
Remote debugging using localhost:1111
(gdb) target extended-remote localhost:4242
Remote debugging using localhost:4242
0x080007a8 in _startup ()
(gdb) kill
Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/whitequark/ST/apps/bally/firmware.elf

Remember that you can shorten the commands. `tar ext :1111' is good enough
Remember that you can shorten the commands. `tar ext :4242' is good enough
for GDB.

Setting up udev rules
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