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Recently, a user of Linaro images within ARM reported the below:
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Some Linaro related questions that I wonder if someone on the alias knows the answers to.

Yesterday I did this:
sudo /home/markn/apps/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-0.4.8/linaro-media-create --rootfs ext3 --mmc /dev/sdb --binary ./linaro-n-ubuntu-desktop-tar-20110629-0.tar.gz --hwpack ./hwpack_linaro-panda_20110629-1_armel_supported.tar.gz --dev panda

And it all worked splendidly and I have a working Ubuntu on my SDcard.

But, for various reasons, I now want/need to be able to load the
matching kernel debug symbols (for vmlinux) into a debugger.

Initially I thought vmlinux might be pre-built inside the HW pack for
me. But if it is I can't see it. I can see the kernel used is:
2.6.38-1003 and I can download the source here https://launchpad.net
/linux-linaro/+milestone/2.6.39-2011.06

I could rebuild the kernel, just to get an ELF image with debug symbols.
But, I'd presumably also need to know the exact version of GCC used to
build the original on my SD card. (And I don't know where to find that
info). Or I could rebuild with my current version of GCC and also
replace the linux binary that linaro-media-create, put on my SDcard.

All this seems a bit contrary to the spirit of Linaro making life easy,
perhaps my use case isn't typical.

So my questions are:
- Does anyone know if the Linaro packages really do contain an image with debug info that I'm just failing to find?
- If they don't - do we know if they will
- And finally is there a better way for me to go about this I'm just failing to see?
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Similar issues were reported by other Linaro users within ARM related to
the lack of availability of debug packages. In one instance, someone
tried a kernel debug of the Linaro images with DS-5 only to figure that
a matching vmlinux with debug symbols is not supplied. This makes life
harder for Linaro users.

** Affects: linaro-ubuntu
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: debug
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Make available source and debug packages corresponding to Linaro binary images
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832680
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