Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add support for gdb and lldb

["Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>]

> On Aug 11, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@nuviainc.com> wrote:
> 
> I realized the Arm gcc 10.3 aarch64 download from https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads uses Python 2.7.18 and not Python 3, so the f-Strings and likely more cause problems. I suspect at this point there's little point putting effort into supporting Python 2.
> 

I’ve not tested on ARM yet, so please let me know if it works. I’d like to avoid Python 2.7 support is possible given it is passed its best by date. 

> 
> I noticed a couple of issues though: in efi_debugging.py the Attributes text is partially underlined with the non-ASCII characters '——————' instead of '----------'.
> 

Thanks did not notice that. 

>      Attributes
>      ——————----
>      _dict_ : dictionay
> 
> 
> There are also a couple of typos of 'dictionary':
> 
> 
> _dict_ : dictionay
> 

Shoot though I fixed those 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> 
> -- 
> Rebecca Cran
> 
> 
> On 8/8/21 3:46 PM, Andrew Fish via groups.io wrote:
>> This patch set adds debugging support for gdb and lldb.
>> It also adds generic debugging classes that use a file like object to
>> make it easy to import into any debugger that supports Python.
>> 
>> Since these debugging scripts don't depend on any EFI code I was thinking
>> we could place them in the root of the repo to be easy to discover.
>> 
>> I've tested gdb on Ubuntu and lldb on macOS for IA32 and X64.
>> 
>> Andrew Fish (3):
>>   efi_debugging.py: - Add debugger agnostic debugging Python Classes
>>   efi_gdb.py: - Add gdb EFI commands and pretty Print
>>   efi_lldb.py: - Add lldb EFI commands and pretty Print
>> 
>>  efi_debugging.py | 2187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  efi_gdb.py       |  918 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  efi_lldb.py      | 1044 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 4149 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100755 efi_debugging.py
>>  create mode 100755 efi_gdb.py
>>  create mode 100755 efi_lldb.py
>>