Add hardware dump entry interface and type
Hardware dumps get collected during a critical
failure on the hardware units like processor
chips.
This commits add following:
- The interface for hardware dump entry.
- Updated the arguments list with following
- Hardware: A new dump type to list of supported
dumps
- FailingUnitId: Id of the hardware unit failed
Signed-off-by: Dhruvaraj Subhashchandran <dhruvaraj@in.ibm.com>
Change-Id: Id209cca5d4ff167d21c45c752a687280aa469830
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+description: >
+ Implement this to add Hardware dump management.
+
+ Hardware dump is a collection hardware state information,
+ including various registers, and it is used for debugging
+ system checkstop. checkstop is the descriptive term for
+ entire system termination by the hardware due to a detected error.