Help wanted - peter-bochs testing

[mcheung63]

Hi
Do you want to help me to test on your computer? It is a GUI debugger for bochs, it can run on win/mac/linux.
Because different version of bochs will generate different output in different format, so I need someone to test it for me.

You can download peter-bochs from here http://code.google.com/p/peter-bochs/downloads/list

Here is the basic tutorial http://code.google.com/p/peter-bochs/wi ... uggerSetup

thanks
from Peter ([email protected])

[stlw]

BTW, still not amd64 support ?

Stanislav

[Brynet-Inc]

I still think the name is hilarious, bochs is pronounced "box" and "peter" has alternative definitions.

..also, nobody likes Java.

[gerryg400]

Maybe not funny everywhere, but funny here.

[mcheung63]

Hi Stanislav, AMD64 support on next version. Now working very hard on supporting source level debug for linux kernel. After that I think bochs can attract many linux kernel guy to use it. In youtube, people debug linux kernel using print and text-mode kgdb. I think providing them a GUI debugger has a great value.

Now i use this http://code.google.com/p/peter-dwarf/ to read out all dwarf information from ELF kernel, still have some bug and dwarf specification is very hard to read for me, maybe because my english is back, i am hacking readelf command and trying to understand more from dwarf.

I mean "Peter" mean "Weak", so peter-bochs may means a weak bochs. Anyway people usually think peter is just a name.

thanks

[rdos]

Hi Stanislav, AMD64 support on next version. Now working very hard on supporting source level debug for linux kernel. After that I think bochs can attract many linux kernel guy to use it. In youtube, people debug linux kernel using print and text-mode kgdb. I think providing them a GUI debugger has a great value.

What I find really funny is that Linux developpers cannot single step from an application into kernel, in the application debugger, to trace syscalls. I've had that feature for quite a while now, including full source-level debugging in kernel. I asked some Linux gurus when this feature would come to Linux on a seminar, but got no answer.

The answer probably is that their debuggers use the same ancient approach to debugging as M$, and freeze application and kernel when the debugger gets control.

[Kazinsal]

Did you really just necro an otherwise unrelated thread to shamelessly brag about your operating system? That's really rather pathetic, dude.

[VolTeK]

..also, nobody likes Java.