Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] docs: qcom: Add qualcomm minidump guide

[Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>]

On 18/04/2023 16:19, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> +@Brian
> 
> On 4/14/2023 4:01 AM, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 22/03/2023 13:30, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>> +Dump collection
>>> +---------------
>>> +
>>> +The solution supports extracting the minidump produced either over 
>>> USB or
>>> +stored to an attached storage device.
>>> +
>>> +By default, dumps are downloaded via USB to the attached x86_64 machine
>>> +running PCAT (Qualcomm tool) software. Upon download, we will see
>>
>> Are these both PCAT and dexter tools public?
> 
> I think, PCAT comes as part of Qcom Package Kit.

yes, this is part of Qualcomm Package Manager.

> 
> Last time, I checked with @Brian, he was saying the they use PCAT 
> software tool running on x86_64 machine attached to QCOM device to
> get the dump(via USB) out of the device.
> 
> Dexter.exe seems private tool, that only requires if we use storage
> (via ufs/emmc) to save minidump on the target device itself and later 
> use adb to pull out the rawdump partition dump and pass it through
> dexter to convert it to same binary blobs which we got directly through
> PCAT.
> 
> I don't at least have any way to avoid dexter tool at the moment.
> However, i will think if we can develop any script which does the
> same.
That would be nice!

--srini
> 
> -- Mukesh
> 
>>
>> --srini
>>> +a set of binary blobs starts with name md_* in PCAT configured 
>>> directory
>>> +in x86_64 machine, so for above example from the client it will be
>>> +md_REGION_A.BIN. This binary blob depends on region content to 
>>> determine
>>> +whether it needs external parser support to get the content of the 
>>> region,
>>> +so for simple plain ASCII text we don't need any parsing and the 
>>> content
>>> +can be seen just opening the binary file.
>>> +
>>> +To collect the dump to attached storage type, one need to write 
>>> appropriate
>>> +value to IMEM register, in that case dumps are collected in rawdump
>>> +partition on the target device itself.
>>> +
>>> +One need to read the entire rawdump partition and pull out content to
>>> +save it onto the attached x86_64 machine over USB. Later, this rawdump
>>> +can be pass it to another tool dexter.exe(Qualcomm tool) which converts
>>> +this into the similar binary blobs which we have got it when 
>>> download type
>>> +was set to USB i.e a set of registered region as blobs and their name
>>> +starts with md_*.
>>> -- 2.7.4