On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:07:21AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:45 AM Anders Roxell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 13:40, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > Is this specifically for qemu or is this just good for debugging with
> > > GDB in general (eg, via JTAG)?

> > I haven't tried, and I don't have a JTAG so I could test it =/

> The DEBUG_INFO=y and (as a dependency for that) CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST
> are definitely needed for all GDB operation. I would assume that
> the scripts also work with any other gdb environment, but haven't tried 
> either.

I'm fairly sure the requirements are identical, though it has been quite
some time since I tried and I don't have relevant hardware any more so
can't confirm.

> For CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE, I'm not actually sure if that helps or
> not. I think I originally suggested to Anders to turn that off when he
> was analyzing a bug, but I don't know if it helped or if it works just
> as well without that.

Yeah, I'd think it'd be helpful to turn that off.

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