[OpenPower-Firmware] eSEL parser for P9

[Stewart Smith]

Dan - do you know the magic here?

Artem Senichev <artemsen at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> We bringup our new server - Nicole, it's a P9 Romulus based machine.
> One of the problems I encountered is the analysis of errors
> generated by hostboot.
>
> For P8 servers, we use the `errl` utility to parse eSEL. Some time
> ago I received this tool from IBM as a binary file for the i386
> platform. Of course, this version is not intended for use with the
> P9, many fields are not parsed completely (I get 'Unrecognized FFDC').
>
> I have built tools from https://github.com/open-power/errl and
> https://github.com/open-power/libopalevents, but these programs give
> me a general description only. As I understood, I need to compile
> `errl` with plugin support to get human readable attribute values.
> But there is no any documentation how to do it.
>
> Can anyone share secret knowledge how can I build `errl` to use it
> for our P9 machine?
> Or, may be there is exist a prebuilt binary tool that you use for
> Romulus?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Artem Senichev
> Software Engineer, YADRO.
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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.