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+@c
+@c  RTEMS Remote Debugger Server Specifications
+@c
+@c  Written by: Eric Valette <valette@crf.canon.fr>
+@c              Emmanuel Raguet <raguet@crf.canon.fr>
+@c
+@c
+@c  $Id$
+@c
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+@chapter Introduction
+
+The TOOLS project aims to provide a complete development environment
+for RTEMS OS. This environment must be as close as possible to the Chorus one
+(gnu compiler, gnu linker, gnu debugger, ...), because it is currently the OS
+which is the most used at CRF and we want to simplify the migration path from
+the ChorusOs environment to the RTEMS environment. One important item of this
+development environment is the remote debugger which allows the developer to
+debug his software on a target machine from a host machine via a communication
+link (Ethernet, serial link, ...).
+
+
+The choice of GDB as debugger has been made with because in CRF, every
+developer, which uses the ChorusOs development environment, debugs his software
+using the remote debugging functionality of GDB. Providing a remote GDB debug
+server running on RTEMS, will enable the developers to use transparently the
+same debugger for a different RTOS. Another reason for the choice of GDB is
+its constant evolution, and that it can be interfaced with graphic user interfaces
+like DDD providing a very powerfull debugging environment.
+
+
+The subject of this document is to explain how GDB works and the way
+to implement a daemon on RTEMS that will be used as a debugger server for a
+GDB client. We will call this daemon Rtems GDB Debug Server Daemon (RGDBSD).
+We aim to provide this debugger running at least on 2 host systems : Linux 2.x
+and Solaris 2.5.1 as they are the two platforms used for developing Chorus applications
+today.
+
+