From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-5.0?] docs: Improve our gdbstub documentation
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:39:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo6sa4yy.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200403094014.9589-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> The documentation of our -s and -gdb options is quite old; in
> particular it still claims that it will cause QEMU to stop and wait
> for the gdb connection, when this has not been true for some time:
> you also need to pass -S if you want to make QEMU not launch the
> guest on startup.
>
> Improve the documentation to mention this requirement in the
> executable's --help output, the documentation of the -gdb option in
> the manual, and in the "GDB usage" chapter.
>
> Includes some minor tweaks to these paragraphs of documentation
> since I was editing them anyway (such as dropping the description
> of our gdb support as "primitive").
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Maybe 5.0 material since it's just a docs improvement?
Sure why not.
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
--
Alex Bennée
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-03 9:40 [PATCH for-5.0?] docs: Improve our gdbstub documentation Peter Maydell
2020-04-03 10:59 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-04-04 0:09 ` Richard Henderson
2020-04-06 17:39 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
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