MPLAB Snap and atbackend

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Posted by dioannidis: Fri. Jun 26, 2020 - 10:37 PM
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Hi all,

 

  I'm trying unsuccessfully to select snap as a tool in atbackend 1.13.4972 (  Atmel Studio 7.0.2397 ) through gdb using the monitor tool commands :

 

(gdb)
com.atmel.avrdbg.tool.simulator
com.atmel.avrdbg.tool.medbg     XYS by Vidmo  ISP/01
com.atmel.avrdbg.tool.snap      BURXXXXXXXXX
(gdb) monitor tool snap
No tool of type snap connected
Protocol error with Rcmd
(gdb)

 

  As a hobbyist I used a "homemade" medbg programmer ( with the vidmo's updi or isp or swd firmware  ) with the atbackend and gdb, which worked, a "little" slow but fine.

 

  Now that I wanted to use a AVR128DA32 mcu, my medbg programmer, always fails to upload ( fuses or memories ) even with Atmel Studio ( yes the programmer is recognized in AS7, thx Vidmo ! ).  

 

  My goal is to use MPLAB Snap for the AVR128DAXX mcu's via atbackend  because I don't code in C, C++ ( so no Atmel Studio or MPLAB X ) but in Free Pascal using the Lazarus IDE.

 

  Any hint ?

 

regards,

 

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Dimitrios

 

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Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

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Last Edited: Tue. Jun 30, 2020 - 05:21 PM
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Posted by samay: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 04:34 AM
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Is GDB a hard requirement? I have never used that so no help there but I use a java program (just in my use case) to call atbackend.exe via command line with snap as an argument and it works fine.

I have an older thread related to this https://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/....

Hope that helps.

-Sam

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Posted by dioannidis: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 07:47 AM
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Hi,

 

samay wrote:

Is GDB a hard requirement?

 

Well, in my setup ( IDE -> gdb -> atbackend -> medbg -> mcu ) is the only way I found for reliable debugging, so I should say yes. 

 

I could code a gdb-to-mdb bridge and use a IDE -> gdb -> gdbtomdb -> mdb -> snap -> mcu .... but before descend into that rabbit hole, I thought to ask here first ....

 

regards,

 

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

Last Edited: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 01:07 PM
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Posted by mraardvark: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 11:34 AM
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AVR128DA32 has a 24-bit UPDI address space, which is not implemented on the mEDBG, which is probably why that doesn't work.

Sure your Snap is in CMSIS-DAP (AVR) mode?

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Posted by dioannidis: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 12:56 PM
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Hi,

 

mraardvark wrote:

Sure your Snap is in CMSIS-DAP (AVR) mode?

 

 I think so.

 

 This is what AS7 reports ...

 

 

regards,

 

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

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Posted by mraardvark: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 01:27 PM
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Looks legit.

Have you tried using atprogram.exe ?

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Posted by dioannidis: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 02:38 PM
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Hi,

 

mraardvark wrote:

Have you tried using atprogram.exe ?

 

I didn't but AFAIU atprogram is not suitable for debugging ... AFAIK, it doesn't have gdb proxying capabilities as atbackend has.

 

My use case is :

 

a) run atbackend.exe /avr8-gdb-ports=1234

b) from inside my IDE i start a gdb remote debugging session connecting to atbackend

c) before the session begins I execute :

  1) monitor tool medbg

  2) monitor device atmega328p debugwire

 

( the steps b and c is done by the IDE automatically )

 

and I'm able to upload and debug my firmware on the mcu ... With the snap tool I'm stuck at the c.1 step. I can't select the snap tool in atbackend. Atbackend can see that there is tool named snap connected but I can't find a way to select it as a debugging tool.

 

I don't think I can do the same with the atprogram ...

 

regards,

 

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

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Posted by mraardvark: Sat. Jun 27, 2020 - 03:39 PM
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True, atprogram does not support debugging.  I was just wondering if your Snap worked with Studio/atprogram in general.  (for mega328p a pack update was required to support snap.)

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Posted by meolsen: Mon. Jun 29, 2020 - 10:09 PM
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The snap is not yet supported by the gdb proxy subsystem in atbackend. The support is added internally and will be available in the next Studio release (last time frame I've heard of is Q3 or Q4 2020, but take that with a grain of salt :) )

:: Morten

 

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Posted by dioannidis: Tue. Jun 30, 2020 - 05:20 PM
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Hi,

 

meolsen wrote:

The snap is not yet supported by the gdb proxy subsystem in atbackend. The support is added internally and will be available in the next Studio release (last time frame I've heard of is Q3 or Q4 2020, but take that with a grain of salt :) )

 

thank you very much !

 

regards,

 

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

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