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Added minimal documentation for the Bochs debugger gui.

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<entry>GUI Debugger</entry>
<entry>Yes</entry>
<entry>Chourdakis Michael and Bruce Ewing contributed very powerful GUI frontend for Bochs internal debugger.
GUI debugger frontend is supported for Win32 and GTK hosts.
GUI debugger frontend is supported for Win32 and GTK2 hosts.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>deprecated option (option from previous Bochs version not needed /
supported anymore)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>mutually exclusive option (e.g <option>--enable-debugger</option> and <option>--enable-gdbstub</option>)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>mutually exclusive option (e.g. <option>--enable-debugger</option> and <option>--enable-gdb-stub</option>)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>dependent option (e.g. USB support requires PCI support)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>incomplete option (e.g. <option>--enable-cpu-level</option> requires an argument)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>development package for library not installed (e.g. for <option>--with-wx</option>)</para></listitem>
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<section id="internal-debugger">
<title>Using Bochs internal debugger</title>
<para>
Note, if you are looking for a graphical front-end for the
bochs debugger, you may want to check out
<ulink url="http://bfe.sourceforge.net/">BFE</ulink>. This is a
package written by a Bochs user which can interface with
the text based Bochs debugger. No linking is necessary.
It's not part of Bochs, but you may find it useful.
</para>
<para>
You can now conditionally compile in a GDB like command line debugger, that
allows you to set breakpoints, step through instructions, and other
@ -7443,6 +7434,12 @@ is generally useful for the debugger, let me know and I'll implement
it if possible.
</para>
<note><para>
This section describes how to enable and use the Bochs command line debugger.
For it's builtin graphical front-end please see the <link linkend="debugger-gui">debugger gui</link>
section how to enable it.
</para></note>
<para>
To use the debugger, you must configure Bochs with the
<option>--enable-debugger</option> and <option>--enable-disasm</option> flags.
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</para>
</section>
<section id="debugger-gui">
<title>
The Bochs debugger gui
</title>
<para>
The graphical front-end for the Bochs command line debugger
is available for Windows and GTK2 hosts.
</para>
<para>
To use the gui debugger, you must configure Bochs with the
default debugger switches and the <option>--enable-debugger-gui</option> flag.
For example:
<screen>
./configure --enable-debugger --enable-disasm --enable-debugger-gui
</screen>
</para>
<para>
At runtime you need to add the value <option>gui_debug</option> to the
<link linkend="bochsopt-displaylibrary">display_library</link> options parameter
in order to use the gui instead of the command line debugger. This example shows how to
use it with the 'x' gui:
<screen>
display_library: x, options="gui_debug"
</screen>
</para>
<para>
&FIXME; List the features here.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>
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