You can use hardware debuggers to debug Neutrino IPL and startup programs without any extra information. However, in this case, you're limited to assembly-level debugging, and assembler symbols such as subroutine names aren't visible. To perform full source-level debugging, you need to provide the hardware debugger with the symbol information and C source code.
This section describes the steps necessary to generate the symbol and debug information required by a hardware debugger for source-level debugging. The steps described are based on the PPC (PowerPC) Board Support Package available for Neutrino 6.3.0 for both IPL and startup of the Motorola Sandpoint MPC750 hardware reference platform.
The examples below are described for a Neutrino 6.3 self-hosted environment, and assume that you're logged in on the development host with root privileges.