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Re: [PATCH for-5.0?] docs: Improve our gdbstub documentation
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [PATCH for-5.0?] docs: Improve our gdbstub documentation |
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Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:39:33 +0100 |
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Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> The documentation of our -s and -gdb options is quite old; in
> particular it still claims that it will cause QEMU to stop and wait
> for the gdb connection, when this has not been true for some time:
> you also need to pass -S if you want to make QEMU not launch the
> guest on startup.
>
> Improve the documentation to mention this requirement in the
> executable's --help output, the documentation of the -gdb option in
> the manual, and in the "GDB usage" chapter.
>
> Includes some minor tweaks to these paragraphs of documentation
> since I was editing them anyway (such as dropping the description
> of our gdb support as "primitive").
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> Maybe 5.0 material since it's just a docs improvement?
Sure why not.
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
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Alex Bennée