Lack of architecture in gdbstub makes debugging confusing I spent some quality time debugging GEF and came to a conclusion here: https://github.com/hugsy/gef/issues/598#issuecomment-819174169 tldr; * gdb_arch_name was undefined on riscv * this bug was fixed recently via https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/edf647864bdab84ed4b1a4f47ea05be6bb075c69 * An undefined gdb_arch_name results in qemu's gdbstub omitting the xml. * gdb translates a missing as "auto" which breaks a lot of stuff. * tracking down where "auto" comes from is a bit confusing and time consuming. It might be better to report a missing / blank gdb_arch_name as "unknown" instead of omitting the block completely.