Intel® System Debugger User Guide
Intel® System Debugger 2024 NDA Update 2414
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New Features
- Target Connection Assistant
Implemented PoC for on Target token creation and injection using Host Embedded Controller Interface(HECI). See related Platform Enablement section in user guide.
Integrated debug info in device_info.json. This exposes properties like cse_trace_enabled for scripting purposes.
- Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
Implemented support for loading KASLR enabled Linux Kernels.
Implemented support for Perf-Based Processor Trace Decoder. Follow user guide to create a Perf capture and decode it ISD source level debugger.
- Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
Deprecation notice added to Trace Hardware Tests dialog. The tests in this dialog are not maintained. This dialog will be removed in future releases.
The new service based Message Viewer opens by default to show the trace messages in a decoded session. The legacy message viewer will still be available by selecting the “legacy” tagged usecases from the “Decode As” dialog or in the streaming preferences. Note that the previous sessions cannot be opened by new viewer since they are not compatible. Use legacy Message Viewer if your work requires to use message distribution of timeline viewer phases support.
The legacy Message Viewer will show a deprecation notice that a new service based Message Viewer is available.
Updated ITH on target driver to latest 10.0.22000.758.
Improved Catalog Service part of Trace CLI, added “preview” label to catalog functions.
- Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
Support to generate raw memory dump.
Support to force type of memory read in full memory dump.
- Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Added delay option for rule analysis.
Added reporting on error conditions of buffer.
Fixed Issues
- IDE
Fixed Welcome page on Windows Server* installations.
Updated to Eclipse 2024-03 and other third party dependencies to mitigate CVEs.
- Debug Token
Fixed debug token creation for APL. Beginning with ISD 2406 ISD has been creating invalid debug tokens for APL. This has been fixed with ISD 2414.
- Target Connection Assistant
Fixed detection of platforms with locked Compute DIE. Platforms beginning with MTL have separate compute dies which report different detection information if they are not unlocked.
- Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
Fixed issue where stepping unstable for some architectures.
- Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
Fixed decoding of PMC traces on Alder Lake based platforms. Before the generated CSV file contained invalid new line characters.
- Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
Fix disconnection from Simics® simulator instance.
Fix extraction of crashlog data from memory dump.
- Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Fixed signal table column sort indicator.
Improved installation of FTDI driver, activate close button after finish of installation.