DSDP/DD/Phone-4-December-2008

Call Info

Meeting Title:	Conference Call on Device Debugging
Date & Time:	Thursday 6 March 2008 at 7:30am PDT / 10:30am EDT
USA tool free dial-in:	(888) 545-8370
International dial-in:	(770) 659-3936
Passcode:	5107492128#
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Attendess

• IBM: Curtis, Mike, Darin,
• Wind River: Martin O., Doug Gaff, Pawel, Randy, Toni
• Ericsson: Marc, Francois
• ARM: Mikhail, Anthony

Agenda and Notes

• Status bu sub-group
  • SPIRIT (Anthony)
  • Memory (Samantha)
  • Disassembly (Mikhail)
  • DSF (Pawel)
  • GDB/MI (Pawel)
  • Multi Context (Pawel)
• Discussion Topics
  • DD 1.1 Release
  • Merging with CDT
    • DSF and GDB moving to CDT
    • Memory may move to Platform, if not it can move to CDT as well,
    • IP-XACT Editor
      • Anthony not available to work on it except maybe answer questions
      • ARM is looking for a new resource to work on this, will need to have it to move the component to the incubator project
      • Otherwise we will need to archive this component.
    • Need to follow up on Veenu's status
  • Debug Context Breadcrumb Demo
    • Breadcrumb is limited showing active context, there is not indication when something else changes, like another thread suspending.
    • Samantha: we could make the Debug view turn into a breadcrumb when the view is small.
    • Darin: having the breadcrumb in the variables view would also help in debugging without the debug view, it would also place all the data in one locaation.
    • Darin: It may be useful to have the drop down open at the instruction pointer location.
    • Is a breadcrumb feature itself useful enough by itself:
      • Most: yes
      • Darin: needs to try it out
      • Mikhail: what is the goal of the feature?
        • Pawel: main primary motivation make it possible to debug w/o debug view.
      • Samantha: need to be able to quickly see the full context of the debugger
    • Where to place the breadcrumb?
      • Pawel: on the status bar to follow UI conventions, but it's not without problems.
      • Randy: put it into each view (variables, registers, etc.)
      • Darin: toolbar (This should be possible, i.e. make the contribution to main toolbar instead of coolbar).
      • Mikhail: visible from any view, then be able to pin view.
    • Conclusion: let's try it out and see how it fits.
    • Create a feature patch plugin and post it on update site.