Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding another debug protocol

[Peter Cheung]

Hi

   Cannot use gdb protocol, because it is slow.

Also, the original gdb stub can dump out GDT/IDT/CR0 directly.

Thanks

from Peter

> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:54:02 +0000
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> To: address@hidden
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> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding another debug protocol
>
> On 14 November 2012 10:45, Peter Cheung <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Dear All
> > I am going to add another debugger server into QEMU, so i need to
> > 1) create another socket server, similar than gdbserver, to receive the
> > command from debugger
> > 2) add another option, such as "--start-debugger-server" to start the socket
> > server.
> >
> > After I work out the whole thing, how can i ask for the qemu maintainer to
> > accept my code? I believe i should write a proposal first.
>
> Probably worth including a summary of why your second debug protocol
> couldn't be implemented as a translation layer between gdbserver
> protocol and whatever it is you need.
>
> -- PMM
>