First, let me profess my newbie status and throw myself on the mercy of
the mail list.
I've been futzing with the linux mspgcc tools for a few weeks now and I
am bruised and battered from the beating. I've had a very, very
difficult time using the toolchain with the msp430F4270.
PROBLEM 1:
I am using Olimex's parallel port FET tool. Initially, gdbproxy would
not recognize the 4270 at all. I finally found that there is a newer
version of gdbproxy that isn't available on the mspgcc sourceforge
page... seems like the logical place for it, rather than a stale
version:(.
Gdbproxy will now recognize and talk to the 4270, but I get an error
when I try to erase and reprogram flash on the 4270 (erase and program
works fine with an F149 part). After fighting with that headache for
too long, I finally downloaded and installed the python msp430-jtag tool
from cvs and can use it to erase and program the part. I am then able
to connect to the 4277 with gdproxy + insight and the on-target
debugging works sporadically. Debugging with insight(v6.0) is *very*
unstable. It doesn't take long before things get horked up and
communication between insight and the 4270 seems to be lost.
Is anyone doing any on-target debugging with linux, mspgcc tools, and
the 4270?
PROBLEM 2:
I thought the latest mspgcc cvs code was supposed to support the 4270
part? If I try to specify -mmcu-msp430x4270 I get an "unknown MCU"
error from the compiler. I've been using -mmuc=msp430xE427, which seems
to work for now. Also, I had to poach and modify a linker script to
support the 4270.
I guess my questions are...
1) should I be using the cvs repository on sourceforge or is there
another repository somewhere else I should be using?
2) I've listed the tool versions I'm using below. Should I be using a
different version of any of these tools?
Tools with the appropriate mspgcc cvs source mods:
binutils -> 2.16.1
mspgcc -> 3.2.3
gdb -> 6.0
insight -> 6.0
gdbproxy -> 0.7.1 (the latest(as far as I know) at soft-switch.org)
jtag -> latest from mspgcc cvs
Mandrake Linux 10.1(kernel 2.6.8.1-25mdk)
Olimex parallel FET programming tool
Thanks,
Dave L.
