Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] i386 debugging stubs: Consider segment bases

[Eddie Kohler]

OK, thanks.  I understand how you're relying on the current behavior.

I'd rather not change all of QEMU and GDB in one step, but I'd like to 
address this.  QEMU documentation implies, and new users expect, that 
debugging uses virtual addresses, not the segmentation-specific "linear 
addresses" that are actually used now.

- How about a maintenance packet type that changed behavior to what I 
would prefer (breakpoints and memory access use virtual addresses, not 
linear addresses)?

- We could add a "segment identifier" parameter to 
cpu_get_phys_page_debug, ignored on all targets but i386 at first.  Then 
we could pass information through to cpu_get_phys_page_debug about what 
kind of address is being translated.  This change could be propagated to 
cpu_memory_rw_debug (now or later).  Would you object?

Eddie