Re: [edk2-devel] OVMF gdb seems to require "stone knives and bearskins" to debug code?

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

(+Rebecca, +Andrei)

On 05/25/20 05:30, Andrew Fish via groups.io wrote:
> The full Star Trek quote from Spock is:  " I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.", but I ran across this [1], and it felt like "stone knives and bearskins." vs my experience with lldb debugging EFI. 
> 
> So a few questions:
> 1) Is this Wiki [1]  actually up to date? 
> 2) Do we have a location to add debugger scripts to the edk2? If not what location should we chose?
> 3) Is anyone interested in writing gdb scripts to do better?

Andrei used to have some utilities / scripts at
<https://github.com/andreiw/andreiw-wip/tree/master/uefi/DebugPkg>, and
Rebecca used to host an article on her website about those tools. Hm....
the URL seems to be:
<https://code.bsdio.com/w/tianocore/debugging-with-gdb/>.

I have those utilities (somewhat refreshed?) in one of my (frequently
rebased) local branches, but I've never tried to upstream them (it's not
my work, after all). But, I use gdb really rarely anyway; mostly I use
DEBUGs. :)


I think the last time we discussed this was in this thread:

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/40061

(alt link:
<http://mid.mail-archive.com/19e9d54a-575a-ee5e-8039-900f466d473d@bluestop.org>)


I don't remember ever relying on [1]
<https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-to-debug-OVMF-with-QEMU-using-GDB>.

Thanks
Laszlo