FFDC tool?
So, I spotted https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/4881/ (well, an associated internal bug report), and it appears there is a FFDC tool in existence?
(FFDC seems like a bit of an IBM specific term, First Failure Data Capture - i.e. gather all the things when something goes wrong and attach it to a bug report)
I'm wondering where I missed any announce/info on its availability and use?
Perhaps an idea would be to put it in the motd and/or /etc/issue(.net) so that it's prominently documented (we do this for petitboot for OpenPOWER host firmware, and I think that helps)?
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Stewart Smith OPAL Architect, IBM.
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So, I spotted https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/4881/ (well, an associated internal bug report), and it appears there is a FFDC tool in existence?
(FFDC seems like a bit of an IBM specific term, First Failure Data Capture - i.e. gather all the things when something goes wrong and attach it to a bug report)
I'm wondering where I missed any announce/info on its availability and use?
It has been around since January. Not sure we announced it specifically anywhere. It was something quickly thrown together by one of the members of the automated test team to help them facilitate gathering some data for automated test failures.
Jayanth is working on a fairly large revamp of this so we can handle capturing different data for both core dumps and user-initiated data collection.
He started a discussion on it back in May but did not get any feedback:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2017-May/007654.html
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Perhaps an idea would be to put it in the motd and/or /etc/issue(.net) so that it's prominently documented (we do this for petitboot for OpenPOWER host firmware, and I think that helps)?
We should probably revisit this after the new API is complete.
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Patrick Williams