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Remote debugging via serial terminal
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Description
Feature Request
Brief: Please add support for remote debugging via serial terminal.
A bit more in detail:
In my szenario I don't always have an ethernet port on the target machine (embedded devices running embedded linux) which I would like to debug. So I have to debug via a general usb port that is configured as a CDC (ACM) device acting as serial port over which a gdbserver communicates to the host machine. Another serial terminal serves as a linux-shell.
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Research direction
No implementation files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing the existing remote-debugging path and how it communicates with gdbserver; the requested scenario uses a CDC (ACM) serial connection for debugging and a separate serial terminal for the Linux shell. Done means remote debugging works without Ethernet in that setup.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, typescript
- Domain
- embedded-iot, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100