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? --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
