On 2014-11-12 16:22:59, Andrew Fish wrote:
> 
>     On Nov 12, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
>     wrote:
> 
>     On 2014-11-12 15:22:18, Andrew Fish wrote:
>             On Nov 12, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Jordan Justen <
>             jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> wrote:
>             Too bad the DebugAgent isn't actually useful for all the trouble 
> it
>             causes. :)
> 
>         1st question what is wrong with the DebugAgent? Why is int not
>         useful?
> 
>     Last time I looked at it you had to get about 4 pieces of software
>     talking together, and half of them were closed source. (For a while, I
>     think you needed a separate Windows machine as well.)
> 
> Sorry for the stupid question, we don’t use the Open Source
> DebugAgent.

You mean, you don't use the EDK II DebugAgent bits? I guess that means
you most likely don't use DebugAgent at all?

> I assumed there would be a Python script to convert to WinDBG to
> gdb-remote.

Hmm. That sounds horrible. Luckily, *I think* it actually has improved
from this point. I'm not sure though.

>         2nd question why are you using the DebugAgent,
> 
>     I am not.
> 
>         when you could just use the QEMU built in gdb stub?
> 
>     I've put some effort into this. It kind of works. DEBUG works better.
> 
> Do you mean DEBUG prints?

Yep.

>     I think there could be value to using the EDK II DebugAgent solution,
>     despite availability of the the gdb stub ... if it was actually easier
>     to use than DEBUG.
> 
> Are there just not scripts to load symbols with gdb? 

Yeah, I kind of had something for this working. Mode changing kind of
confused things. I think it might useable in some scenarios.

-Jordan

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