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Hat tip for a great product to Sysprogs et. al.
I would like some additional target connectivity options besides SSH. SSH can be heavy-weight and taxing on embedded devices, particularly when paired with gdb/gdbserver. Telnet and raw TTY/serial are almost always present on a given distro. Also, transport options for deploying binaries with sz/rz would be great.
Hi,
The problem with raw telnet is that it does not support easy file transfer and has no convenient API for running just one command and seeing when it exited. It could be achieved via various workarounds, but they won’t be very reliable.
We currently recommend setting up a custom project and simply adding custom pre-debug commands to transfer your files to the device. Similarly, you can use the expect tool to connect to the target via raw telnet and specify it as the local GDB executable so that VisualGDB will simply launch it and send the commands there.
We will monitor the demand for this feature and consider adding it if the demand grows. In the meanwhile, feel free to try the workaround described above and if it does not work, we will gladly provide more detailed steps.
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