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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:29:20 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] config: provide a fragment to enable gdb for qemu
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:07:21AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:45 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 13:40, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> 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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