Re: [linuxsh-dev] GDB web page

[Stuart M. <Stu...@st...>]

Greg

Many thanks for the comments.

On Sep 1,  4:43pm, gb...@po... wrote:
> Subject: Re: [linuxsh-dev] GDB web page
> Stuart Menefy wrote:
>   Your documentation is very good...easy to read, accurate and up-to-date.
> Well, mostly, I've got a few comments (see below).  Actually I was wondering
> if I could basically subsume large chunks of it into the FAQ (with full credit
> of course!) ?  The idea is that someone could print out the FAQ and have
> almost all the info they need in one document.  Given the current state of
> the FAQ it needs a major clue-transfusion.

Feel free to use it. I agree it would be great to have an 'all in one
place' description of how to get started, but I'm not sure a FAQ is the
right place. If we can use the web pages as more of a tutorial, or a
getting started guide, then the FAQ would only need to contain pointers
to these, or pieces of information which don't fit cleanly elsewhere.

Plus I object to copying things on principle, as I always forget to
update one of the copies!

> 
>   Anyway, my comments on gdb.php:
> 
> 1.  "Note 'GDB Stub kernel debug' and 'Early printk support' are mutually
>      exclusive."  AFAICT this is not true, at least it's not supposed to be.
>      If something in the code or doco suggests that, I need to fix it!

That was just my experience. With both enabled I was getting plain
text in the middle of GDB messages, causing the CRCs to be wrong, and
GDB on the host ignored the message.

> 2.   In the 3rd-last paragraph, it talks about the stub detaching from 
>      the host gdb.  Perhaps it might be a good idea to mention the
>      message gdb gives, which is probably quite confusing for newbies.

Good point, I'll add something.

Thanks

Stuart