DSDP/DD

Welcome to the DSDP-Device Debugging Project Wiki. Device Debugging creates new frameworks and extensions to the existing platform debug framework to support the three phases of device software development: hardware bring-up, platform software development, and application software development. The Device Debugging project will build enhanced debug models, APIs, and views to provide greater visibility into and control over device software targets.

These pages are meant as an open, collaborative platform for discussions and exchanging ideas. For official information and documents, see the Official DSDP-DD Website.

DSDP-DD Goals

These are the current goals for Device Debugging project at this point.

• Modify the Eclipse Debug Model Interfaces in order to enable more customized debugger implementations, especially those geared towards the embedded space. The first version was released in Eclipse 3.2. The platform debug team and the DD project are currently looking at improvements.
• Provide a new Debug Model implementation that takes a more modular approach to connecting debugger backends into Eclipse. This is called Debugger Services Framework (DSF).
• Enhance the debugger views for multi-core and multi-process support and provide specific improvements in those views for embedded development. Multi-core enhancements are proposed for the Eclipse 3.3 release. We are looking at additional view enhancements.
• Integrated with the SPIRIT consortium for tooling and debugger data file specification.
• Provide the next generation implementation for CDT’s MI debugger.

DSDP-DD Meeting Notes

• Face-to-Face Meeting 24 September 2007
• Phone Meeting 14-August-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 9-August-2007
• Phone Meeting 7-August-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 24-July-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 17-July-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 10-July-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 3-July-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 26-June-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 19-June-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 14-June-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 7-June-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 30-May-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 24-May-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Face-to-Face Meeting 14-18 May 2007
• Phone Meeting 10-May-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 3-May-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 26-April-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 19-April-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 12-April-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 05-April-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 29-March-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 22-March-2007 - DSF GDB/MI discussions
• Phone Meeting 7-Feb-2007
• Face-to-Face Meeting 9-10 Jan 2007
• Phone Meeting 6-December-2006
• Phone Meeting 1-November-2006
• Phone Meeting 4-October-2006
• Phone Meeting 6-September-2006
• Phone Meeting 2-August-2006
• Phone Meeting 13-July-2006
• Phone Meeting 3-May-2006
• Face-to-Face Meeting 22-Feb-2006
• Face-to-Face 22-23 Feb 2006
  • Meeting Notes
• Phone Meeting 13-Jan-2006
  • Meeting Notes
  • Multiple Debug Context Options
• Phone Meeting 21-Dec-2005
  • Meeting Notes
  • Flexible Debug Platform M4 Update
  • Memory View Enhancements
• Face-to-Face 11-12 October 2005
  • Meeting Notes
  • Eclipse IP Due Diligence
  • Flexible Debug Platform
  • Update Policy Prototype
  • Multiple Debug Contexts
  • Pinned Debug Views
• Face-to-Face 3-4 May 2005
  • Meeting Notes
  • Meeting Notes
  • CDT Debug Overview
  • Debugger Features
  • Debug View Updates
  • Flexible Hierarchy
  • Open Debug Server
  • Update Policy

Release Stuff

• Europa - DD 0.9
  • Project plan
  • Ramp down policy
  • New and Noteworthy

Technology Sub-Groups

The pages below were created to contain the activity of several small sub-groups created to focus on specific improvements to the Platform around device debugging. See the 22-Feb-2006 meeting notes above for more information.

Technology	Lead	Members
Debug view	Paul Gingrich (TI)	TBD
Memory	Samantha Chan (IBM)	Ted Williams (WR), Freescale, AMI
Expressions & Variables	Ken Ryall (Nokia)	Ted Williams (WR), Pete Nichols (IBM)
Registers	Kirk Beitz (Freescale)	Ted Williams (WR), Pete Nichols (IBM), ATI
Breakpoints	Ewa Matejska (PalmSource)	Pawel Piech (WR), Mikhail Khodjaiants (QNX), TI, Nokia
Console - Debug/Serial/Network	Aaron Spear (Mentor)	Freescale, AMI, PalmSource
Disassembly	Patrick Chuong (TI)	Wind River
Views - multi-context, pin/clone, update policy	Darin Wright (IBM)	Samantha Chan (IBM), Ted Williams (WR)
Debug Model	Pawel Piech (Wind River)	Mikhail Khodjaiants (QNX), Freescale, Nokia
Launching	Pete Nichols (IBM)	TI
Editor	Ewa Matejska (PalmSource)	Pete Nichols(IBM), Nokia
Source Lookup	Pawel Piech (Wind River)	Pete Nichols(IBM)
SPIRIT	Aaron Spear (ATI/Mentor)

DSF

Documentation

• White Paper describing goals and features of DSF
• Setting up, building, and running
• Design document describing DSF concurrency model
• Design document describing DSF services model (Note: need move this document into twiki for easier editing)
• Design document describing DSF data/viewer model (Note: need move this document into twiki for easier editing)