topic Re: debugging freeRTOS in KDS in Kinetis Software Development Kit https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Software-Development-Kit/debugging-freeRTOS-in-KDS/m-p/511648#M5259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Randy,</P><P>as of today, you can use the free Wittenstein Eclipse plugin get task awareness (see <A href="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/08/04/diy-free-toolchain-for-kinetis-part-5-freertos-eclipse-kernel-awareness-with-gdb/" title="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/08/04/diy-free-toolchain-for-kinetis-part-5-freertos-eclipse-kernel-awareness-with-gdb/">DIY Free Toolchain for Kinetis: Part 5 – FreeRTOS Eclipse Kernel Awareness with GDB</A>). It is not that advanced as the MQX plugin. 'Thread' based selection is not implemented in that plugin, I'm using a workaround instead (see <A href="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/10/03/freertos-arm-thread-debugging-with-eclipse-and-gdb/" title="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/10/03/freertos-arm-thread-debugging-with-eclipse-and-gdb/">FreeRTOS ARM Thread Debugging with Eclipse and GDB</A>​). I expect that some of the MQX advanced debug features will move over.</P><P></P><P>I hope this helps,</P><P>Erich</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:10:50 GMT BlackNight 2016-03-30T08:10:50Z debugging freeRTOS in KDS https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Software-Development-Kit/debugging-freeRTOS-in-KDS/m-p/511647#M5258 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So MQX is being depreciated and FreeRTOS being used instead starting with SDK V2.0.&nbsp; Fine.&nbsp; OK.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>So, KDS has some inherent knowledge about MQX when it debugs.&nbsp; You can see stacks, processes and all kinds of good stuff.&nbsp; KDS last version (3.0 or so) didn't as far as I can see... it is like debugging any other regular code.&nbsp; Is there some plan to get that debugging capability of MQX for FreeRTOS in near term releases of KDS.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Got a project starting that I can live without it for a couple of months but when I get to serious debugging, that will be a very serious issue to not have it and will mean that I'll have to stick with MQX instead just to be more productive.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:29:33 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Software-Development-Kit/debugging-freeRTOS-in-KDS/m-p/511647#M5258 randylee 2016-03-29T18:29:33Z Re: debugging freeRTOS in KDS https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Software-Development-Kit/debugging-freeRTOS-in-KDS/m-p/511648#M5259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Randy,</P><P>as of today, you can use the free Wittenstein Eclipse plugin get task awareness (see <A href="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/08/04/diy-free-toolchain-for-kinetis-part-5-freertos-eclipse-kernel-awareness-with-gdb/" title="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/08/04/diy-free-toolchain-for-kinetis-part-5-freertos-eclipse-kernel-awareness-with-gdb/">DIY Free Toolchain for Kinetis: Part 5 – FreeRTOS Eclipse Kernel Awareness with GDB</A>). It is not that advanced as the MQX plugin. 'Thread' based selection is not implemented in that plugin, I'm using a workaround instead (see <A href="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/10/03/freertos-arm-thread-debugging-with-eclipse-and-gdb/" title="http://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/10/03/freertos-arm-thread-debugging-with-eclipse-and-gdb/">FreeRTOS ARM Thread Debugging with Eclipse and GDB</A>​). I expect that some of the MQX advanced debug features will move over.</P><P></P><P>I hope this helps,</P><P>Erich</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:10:50 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Software-Development-Kit/debugging-freeRTOS-in-KDS/m-p/511648#M5259 BlackNight 2016-03-30T08:10:50Z