lm3s6965evb-qemu#

This target is specifically for emulation of the Texas Instruments Stellaris LM3S lm3s6965evb using QEMU. This may be useful for testing ARMv7-M code without physical hardware.

This target configuration has not been tested on the physical Stellaris development board.

Building#

To build for this Pigweed target, simply build the top-level “qemu_gcc” Ninja target.

$ ninja -C out qemu_gcc

Testing#

This target does not yet support automatic test running (though it would be relatively easy to do so). To run a QEMU binary, see the instructions below.

Executing Binaries#

When running a QEMU binary, you may chose to run it interactively with GDB, or allow the binary to run in a hands-off manner.

Running Without GDB#

When running without GDB, the firmware will execute normally without requiring further interaction.

$ qemu-system-arm -cpu cortex-m3 -machine lm3s6965evb \
  -nographic -no-reboot \
  -kernel path/to/firmware.elf

Run With GDB#

When running with GDB, execution of the binary will begin in a halted state. To begin running the code, you must connect using GDB, set any breakpoints you wish, and then continue execution.

# Start the VM and GDB server.
$ qemu-system-arm -cpu cortex-m3 -machine lm3s6965evb \
  -gdb tcp::3333 -S
  -nographic -no-reboot \
  -kernel path/to/firmware.elf

In another window

$ arm-none-eabi-gdb path/to/firmare.elf
(gdb) target remote :3333
(gdb) break SomeFunction()
(gdb) continue
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