GDB Single Step fails on RISCV, EL2 with ICCM

[jamesbbecker]

Hello,
I have a EL2 design running on an fpga (Nexys A7). I have a jtag controller running with openocd, with gdb connected via port 3333 on the openocd server.
My EL2 design has two code memories designed in. One can handle 2-byte and single byte reads, the other (called ICCM) can only handle 4 byte word reads.
When I have code running in the first memory, everything works fine - single step, breakpoints, etc.
When I have code running in the ICCM memory, breakpoints work, but single stepping does not.
Looking at the debug output of openocd, it appears that gdb is requesting a 2-byte read from the memory when a single step is requested. Since my memory can't handle a 2-byte read, it fails and the failure is sent all the way back to gdb.
Since it is gdb which is requesting the two-byte read, I'm assuming its a gdb problem. I looked around but couldn't find an openocd setting to solve the problem.

[kito-cheng]

I would suggest you can send mail to gdb mailing list since that is seems like a gdb specific question, so I guess you can get more feedback from gdb expert there.

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