On 10/29/2014 04:18 PM, Liviu Ionescu wrote: > > On 29 Oct 2014, at 17:11, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On 10/28/2014 03:40 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> I think writes via gdb will be treated in the same way as >>> writes by the CPU (ie interpreted as attempts to program >>> the flash device). QEMU doesn't support a "debug access" >>> abstraction. >> >> I think they should work right. See cpu_memory_rw_debug. > > I'm not sure I can follow you. do you mean there is a recent patch that fixed > this? > > otherwise, according to my tests, when the GDB session is active, the > semihosting output is no longer displayed in the qemu console.
That's due to usage of the breakpoint instruction, as Peter pointed out. I mean that writes to ROM or flash via gdb should modify the ROM directly, unlike writes by the CPU. Paolo
