Dump out the state of your SBE with pdbg

sbe_info.py

#!/usr/bin/python2
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import os

def sbe_status(proc=0):
    cmd = "pdbg getcfam 0x2809 -p {}".format(proc)
    output = os.popen(cmd).read()
    # TODO: error handling
    output = output.split('=')[1]
    parsevalue(bin(int(output, 16)))

def parsevalue(cfam):
    sbe_states = {'0000': 'SBE_STATE_UNKNOWN',
                  '0001' : 'SBE_STATE_IPLING',
                  '0010': 'SBE_STATE_ISTEP',
                  '0011' : 'SBE_STATE_MPIPL',
                  '0100': 'SBE_STATE_RUNTIME',
                  '0101' : 'SBE_STATE_DMT',
                  '0110': 'SBE_STATE_DUMP',
                  '0111' : 'SBE_STATE_FAILURE',
                  '1000': 'SBE_STATE_QUIESCE',
                  '1001' : 'SBE_STATE_QUIESCE',
                  '1111': 'SBE_INVALID_STATE'}

    val = cfam[2:3]
    val = 'True' if val == '1' else 'False'
    print "SBE Booted           : %s" %(val)

    val = cfam[3:4]
    val = 'True' if val == '1' else 'False'
    print "Async FFDC           : %s" %(val)

    val = cfam[4:6]
    print "Reserver Bit [2:3]   : %s" %(val)

    val = cfam[6:10]
    print "SBE Previous State   : %s (%s)" %(sbe_states[val], val)


    val = cfam[10:14]
    print "SBE Current State    : %s (%s)" %(sbe_states[val], val)

    val = cfam[14:22]
    print "Istep Major          : %s" %(int(val, 2))

    val = cfam[22:28]
    print "Istep Minor          : %s" %(int(val, 2))

    val = cfam[28:34]
    print "Reserved Bit [26:31] : %s" %(val)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sbe_status()