Bug#292559: ITP: mcelog -- tool to collect and decode Machine Check Exception on x86-64 machines

[Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>


* Package name    : mcelog
  Version         : 0.3
  Upstream Author : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* URL             : ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/tools/mcelog
* License         : GPL v2
  Description     : tool to collect and decode Machine Check Exception on x86-64 machines

>From the control file:

Package: mcelog
Architecture: i386 amd64
Description: tool to collect and decode Machine Check Exception on x86-64 machines
 Starting with version 2.6.4, the Linux kernel no longer decodes and logs
 Machine Check Exception events to the kernel log.
 .
 Instead, the MCE data is kept in a buffer which can be read from userpace via
 the /dev/mcelog device node.
 .
 You need this tool to collect and decode those events; it will log the decoded
 MCE events into /var/log/mcelog.


The package is of no use (AFAIK) on non-x86{,-64} machines, thus the Arch: line.


I have a package ready, I should upload it soon.

JB.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)