From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@warp10.net>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: gdbstub: packet reply is too long
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:03:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812202103.19216.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494D5CEF.2040203@web.de>
On Saturday 20 December 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to debug a 32bit (i386) kernel on a 64bit host under kvm,
> >>> but gdb always refuses it with:
> >>
> >> QEMU and also KVM's x86_64 version are currently broken /wrt debugging
> >> targets < 64 bits. I've posted a fix a while ago, but there were
> >> concerns that gdb should better be enhanced (which is basically true,
> >> but unrealistic to achieve in the near future).
> >
> > I still maintain that making the g packet format depend on the current
> > CPU more is absolutely the wrong way to fix this.
>
> From a higher perspective, it is surely not the cleanest approach. But
> it still appears to be the only one which helps us working around this
> gdb shortcoming.
Actually it isn't. You could add an explicit switch.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1229776952.22890.2.camel@ws-aschultz>
2008-12-20 15:49 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: gdbstub: packet reply is too long Jan Kiszka
2008-12-20 20:35 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-20 21:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-20 21:03 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-12-20 21:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-20 21:34 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-20 21:55 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-20 22:08 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-20 22:34 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-20 22:46 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-20 23:44 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-26 23:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-29 14:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-30 22:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-01-02 12:53 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-01-03 1:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-04 13:50 ` Jan Kiszka
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