Using OpenRISC ports of either gdb-6.8 or gdb-7.2, debugging via RSP to the cycle accurate model of ORPSoC now has several issues.
gdb-6.8 issues are that instruction stepping appears to continue execution rather than step execution, the load command receives multiple "packet errors" and then the system appears not to respond properly after loading.
gdb-7.2 cannot connect at all, and crashes the model.
I suspect a more recent version of Jeremy Bennett's RSP server, and better integration are needed.