----- "Sami Liedes" <sliedes(a)cc.hut.fi&gt; wrote: OK, I was hoping that perhaps it would show up after the cpu and cpu_common devices, because if that were the case, we could just bail out on reading any more devices. That debug message is essentially harmless/useless. There was a gcc version in the 3.4.0 timeframe that required the embedded gdb to have --readnow passed to it in order to gather the required debuginfo data. It was fixed subsequently, although I'm not sure in which gcc version. I should probably at least cap the message at gcc 4.x.x or something like that. As far as the slirp device handling, I got this response from Paolo: Thanks, Dave