Re: Help with debugging techinques

From: Dean Ramsier (ramsiernospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:02:30 -0500

Nothing stopping you from continuing to use the DEBUGMSG/RETAILMSG macros.
The key is to ensure that your debug port (serial) is still enabled, and not
being used as a system serial port. If the debugger is not included, the
messages will still come out of the serial port without requiring a kitl
link to be established. Note that retail builds will cause the DEBUGMSG
macro to evaluate to null, so only RETAILMSG macros will work. 

-- 
Dean Ramsier - eMVP
"Ten" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:uQTgMEs5EHA.3840@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have a PXA255 based SBC created under 4.2.  I have a platform that works
> good under PB Debug and Release modes.  I have recently burned the retail
OS
> image to FLASH and booted from it (only Full Kernel and Images > 32MB are
> selected in configuration).  Comparing test runs from the PB and non-PB
> boots, I see that the non-PB session exhibits some different behavior and
I
> want to capture what is happening so I can fix the bug.
>
> 1. I am used to using DEBUGMSG in the driver.  Is there a compliment to
this
> method in the application layer?
> 2. I am thinking of creating my own API for collecting and displaying
debug
> messages to an application running on CE.  Does something like this exist?
> 3. I can always dump trace information to a file, but I want to avoid this
> method if I can.
>
> I'd like to hear of any other suggestions or techniques that have been
used
> to debug a retail image untethered from PB.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick.
>
>

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