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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 -v2] gdbstub: Rework configuration via
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:10:53 +0000
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Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>

On Saturday 21 March 2009, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Introduce a more powerful gdbstub configuration (system emulation olny)
> via new switch '-gdb dev'. Keep '-s' as shorthand for '-gdb tcp::1234'.
> Use the same syntax also for the corresponding monitor command
> 'gdbserver'. Its default also remains to listen on port 1234.

I don't see how this is an improvement. In fact it provides less functionality 
than the current -p, which is also consistent with other similar qemu 
options.

Paul