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Eclipse Leda provides a Yocto-based build setup for SDV.EDGE components
https://eclipse-leda.github.io/leda/
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Additional debug tools in default image, e.g. strace #111

Closed mikehaller closed 10 months ago

mikehaller commented 1 year ago

During onboarding of Leda distro to new hardware devices, such as the Jacinto eval kit, it's necessary to go through a couple of low-level functionality: boot process, filesystem layouts, RAUC integration etc.

Often, it's not clear when some tools have problems, e.g. "fw_printenv" not finding the correct config file and problems like that.

Tools like strace would be helpful to have on the default full image (sdv-image-full), to be able to debug the system. Maybe a "-dev" feature toggle. The alternative option to install these tools as a container is not practical, as the state of the system integration is very early and at that point in time, the container runtime may not even be functional yet.

d-s-e commented 1 year ago

The full image is used for hacking anyway, so I don't think the feature toggle is necessary. Installing just straceis easy, which other tools do you need?

Usually EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES:append = " tools-debug" is used for that, but this will fail due to the GPLv3 restriction.

vasilvas99 commented 1 year ago

Strace was added in https://github.com/eclipse-leda/meta-leda/pull/202 , its small enough (~2MBs). Maybe we can also add file and ldd and this should be more than enough for basic on-device debugging of binaries?