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RE: [Xen-devel] common gdb stub

To: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>, "Hollis Blanchard" <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] common gdb stub
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:12:44 -0700
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No, no gdb stub in xen/ia64 right now.  The pdb-stub is
vestigial... there used to be one in xen/x86 (a debugger
that Alex Ho was doing, see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sos22/replay.bk/docs/misc/XenDebugger-HOWTO
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/GRID.2004.49) 
and the routines in it were accessed from common.

Because I've had the use of a good simulator, I haven't
had much use for an interactive debugger, but I'm sure
it will become useful at some point.  We had a similar
gdb-stub in vBlades and it sometimes came in handy.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kip Macy [mailto:kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:02 PM
> To: Hollis Blanchard
> Cc: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); Xen-devel
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] common gdb stub
> 
> That would be useful to a lot of people. I suggested that a while back
> but have been fighting other fires.
> 
> PDB was a more complete and MUCH more brittle stub.
> 
> On 4/15/05, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Dan, from a quick search it seems xen/ia64 doesn't have 
> a GDB stub,
> > is that right? (What exactly is pdb-stub about?)
> > 
> > Looking at arch/x86/cdb.c, it seems that most of this code 
> could be made
> > common, and each architecture would supply its own version of
> > handle_register_read_command/handle_memory_read_command(). 
> Would that be
> > useful to you?
> > 
> > --
> > Hollis Blanchard
> > IBM Linux Technology Center
> > 
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