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Subject: Re: mtdoops: helper application for readout?
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On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 16:26 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Alexander Stein
> <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> wrote:
> > is there already some helper application which can shows the stored oops/panics with mtdoops?
> 
> After a bit of googling, it looks like there are scattered URL
> references to a no-longer-available "oopslog.c", written by the author
> of mtdoops, Richard Purdie. I CC'd him at his last-known address from
> the git logs, but he doesn't seem to have touched this in a while.
> 
> AFAIK, the output from mtdoops is just plain text data (not
> compressed), so you can just dump it straight from the /dev/mtdX
> (where X is the MTD number) with something like 'cat /dev/mtdX'. Of
> course, that will not account for when the ring buffer wraps around
> nor if there are bad blocks.
> 
> Brian
> 
> P.S. With a little more digging, I found a source tarball in the Maemo
> archives that contains oopslog.c. It's a very simple program, and I
> haven't tested it. Use at your own risk:
> 
> http://maemo.org/packages/view/sp-oops-extract/
> 
> http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/free/s/sp-oops-extract/sp-oops-extract_0.0.7-1.tar.gz

You've found the code that works with that setup, I haven't touched it
in a long time...

Cheers,

Richard