So you have a serial log from u-boot you need parsed into binary am I right? Well look no further, because your dreams have come true -- in rust as well! No.. No, not really.
That being said, this does do the trick so clean up your output, and get ready to parse some data!
usage: kaiseki <input> <output>
It's a rust project managed by Cargo -- what more could you ask for??
Install it like this:
git clone https://github.com/crux161/kaiseki.git
cd kaiseki
cargo b --release
cargo install --path . # goes to /home/$USER/.cargo/bin most likely
Maybe I'll write a Makefile or some setup script to do this, but for now don't be lazy! It's called copy and paste you heathens! :P
The original python script in this project has been ported to rust. At least, I did my best trying to understand and recreate the logic. There is no help if something goes wrong in the parsing, it will simply complain and error out enigmatically.. This.. needs to be fixed.
That being said, not everyone has python installed everywhere they need to run this, and being rust you can compile a version for your platform very easily.
Despite being written in rust -- and timing a few seconds ahead of it's python port -- a lot could probably be done to make this thing faster.
But then again, you just let picocom dump data overnight-- what's another 15 seconds waiting to parse ~200MB?
This contribution of mine is named Kaiseki after the Japanese word 「解析」meaning "analysis"... I thought it was cute anyways. :P