how to debug fiasco kernel

[Martin Unzner]

I use GDB stubs exclusively, in Bochs as well as in QEMU (I did not try 
L4/Fiasco on other virtual machines so far, and only a few times on 
physical hardware). There are approaches for debugging in the L4 runtime 
environment, such as Valgrind and probably also GDB (although I am not 
sure about that). They are usually quite old and not all of them still 
work. If you like, you can take a look at some of the work presented at 
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/index.php?node_id=1701 and 
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/index.php?node_id=1429 .

Anyway, at least with simple applications, my first approach is usually 
a close examination of the code: go through all your setup, and if you 
are unsure at some point whether you did it right or not, try to type 
your problem into Google. If you cannot find anything, send an e-mail to 
the list. People here are usually very nice and patient and they will be 
happy to help.

Regards!

Martin

P.S.: I answered you using the mailing list, and I would like to ask you 
to use the "Reply to list" or "Reply to all" button of your e-mail 
client, so that everyone can follow the discussion and benefit from our 
findings.

Am 02.04.2013 04:49, schrieb Jian Liu:
>
> 2013/4/2 Martin Unzner <munzner at os.inf.tu-dresden.de 
> <mailto:munzner at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>>
>
>
>     you mention bochsdbg, so maybe you want to use the Bochs GDB stub?
>     http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/debugging-with-gdb.html
>     tells you how to do so. Using GDB, you can debug all kinds of
>     programs on source code level.
>
>
>    Hi Martin,
>
>        I am also wonder besides bochs, if there are other ways to 
> debug fiasco system on source code level. What is your usual method to 
> do it?
>
>        Best,
>
>        Jian

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