On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Zhiyuan Shao <zys...@hust.edu.cn> wrote: > Hi team, > > I am a Qemu User, and using Qemu 0.13.0 to debugging the linux kernel > code (Qemu+GDB). > > During the usage, I found the Qemu debugging console (i.e., entered by > pressing Ctl+Alt+2 in Qemu SDL window or by passing "-monitor stdio" to > Qemu in the command line) is rather difficult to use. It can not show > some important information, e.g., on i386 platform, which is my major > interest, it can not show IDT, GDT information. Regarding the page > mapping information, "info tlb" actually do a really bad job.
How is that bad? > On this side, I think Bochs is good. Unfortunately, it seems do not > support gdb-stub debugging and general purpose debugging at the same > time. > > I do not know if the Qemu team had made any plans to improve this? such > as embedding the bochs debugging alike functionalities in future Qemu > releases? Perhaps nobody were aware that there were any lack of functionalities. I think these should be very easy to add.
