Re: [PATCH 0/3] gdbstub: add support for switchable endianness

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 15:20, Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To resolve the issue to debug switchable targets, this serias introduces
> basic infrastructure for gdbstub and enable support for ARM and RISC-V
> targets.

As I understand it, fixing this problem requires support
from gdb, not merely changes to QEMU. You would need to be
able to have QEMU tell gdb "the guest's endianness is now
little/big" and have gdb cope with that change.

> For example, now there is no problem to debug an big-enadian aarch64 target
> on x86 host.
>
>   $ qemu-system-aarch64 -gdb tcp::1234,endianness=big ...

I don't feel like this is the right approach. QEMU already
knows the endianness of the guest at any point.

thanks
-- PMM