Replacement for itmdump

[grigorig]

The itm-decode utility is not a replacement for itmdump. Is anything planned in this regard? Something suitable for the common use case of watching SWV debug output live.

[tmplt]

Is anything planned in this regard?

It's likely in scope, but I cannot find the repository of itmdump to compare feature sets. Do you know where it is located?

Something suitable for the common use case of watching SWV debug output live.

If the SWV is available as a serial device it can be monitored live with itm-decode --singles /path/to/serial-device. If --itm-freq is specified itm-decode configures the device for the given baud rate.

[grigorig]

See https://github.com/rust-embedded/itm. It actually says "This crate is now deprecated, please refer to rtic-scope/itm instead.", so I wonder why you don't know about it.

[tmplt]

rust-embedded/itm does not contain an itmdump, see rust-embedded/itm#33. The issue points to https://github.com/japaric/itm-tools, but that repo does not contain it either. itm-tools does contain an itm-decode also, but that tool is superseded by this repo's itm-decode which offer some additional features.

[ryan-summers]

For future reference, itmdump was included in the last release (0.3.1) of itm, but appears to have been removed on master before this was transferred. See https://github.com/rust-embedded/itm/blob/v0.3.1/src/bin/itmdump.rs

[tmplt]

Thanks, @ryan-summers.

It seems that itmdump is used to decode and print out the payloads of instrumentation packets. While this crate does decode them, itm-decode does not currently decode the payload data into strings like itmdump seems to do. Closing in favour of #5.