I've created a branch "gdb" for gdb-serial stub. It doesn't all work nice and round (especially if you connect debugger before launching stub) but is useful On 13.11.2011 23:18, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, all. Looking though archives I found old script by Lubomir Rintel > for gdb. I integrated it into our build system and committed, now you > just have to run gdb -x gdb_grub from grub-core directory. It's limited > to platforms with predefined load address, so *-efi is excluded but all > others platforms should work, didn't test it with anything else than > i386-pc though. > At first I wanted to install it as well but then I noticed that it has > an important problem: > - It uses insecure temporary files. While fine if you own current > directory (like grub-core), it has to use mktemp if to be installed > globally. > - I don't know how to implement the logic "check if kernel.exec is in ., > if so use it, otherwise use @platformdir@/kernel.exec" in gdb scripts. > Note: @platformdir@ is expanded by automake. > Also I would prefer script to be less chatty and use python but it's not > very important. > I attach a simple patch to install those scripts if needed. > Also there is a serial-gdb patch in same series, while also interesting > it would need more work (and can be integrated with my another work for > backtracing on grub_fatal and exceptions) >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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