Tom has been around here for the past few days working on the new Student Robotics kit with me. We got to the point where Tom needed to use msp430-gdb so he could debug the firmware for the msp430 on the power board. I’ve previously packaged the compiler, mspgcc, but I hadn’t got around to packaging gdb.

I decided that my time would be better invested if I finished packaging msp430-gdb rather than performing another source install on someone else’s machine. Whilst I was at it, I also packaged msp430-gdbproxy and the udev rule required to get the UIF to work.

Now all the msp430 packages packages are available for Fedora 9:

• msp430-binutils 2.18
• msp430-gcc 3.2.3
• msp430-libc (from CVS on 2008-08-28)
• msp430-gdb 6.8
• msp430-gdbproxy 0.7 (includes udev rule).

You’ll find the specfiles and source RPMs in the same directory.

You can install them all by running:

su -c "rpm -Uvh http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-binutils-2.18-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gcc-3.2.3-1.20080827cvs.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-libc-0-1.20080828cvs.fc9.noarch.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gdb-6.8-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gdbproxy-0.7.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm"

I’m still waiting for someone to review my request to get binutils for msp430 into Fedora. :-/

Tags: fedora, msp430, mspgcc, rpm

I got fed up with having to run through the build procedure for mspgcc with others. I think I must have done it four times now. So, I’ve packaged it into some RPMs that I’ve built for Fedora 9. I’m trying to get them into the Fedora repositories, but for now you can download them from here. These include the patches for the msp430f2xx, and the other patches that the mspgcc guys recommend.

I haven’t done GDB yet, but hope to over the next few days.

Tags: fedora, msp430, mspgcc, student robotics