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On Jan 5, 2022, at 6:53 PM, Timotej Ecimovic <timotej.ecimo...@silabs.com>
wrote:
> No. Like the document describes: tooling that deals with deframing is
> expected to remove the starting `[`, the ending `]` and the 2 byte length
> right after the `[`.
> In case of creating a PCAPNG file out of this stream, the payload of the
> packet blocks will NOT contain the framing. So the "packet" starts with the
> debug message.
I.e., in LINKTYPE_SILABS_DEBUG_CHANNEL files, the packet doesn't include the
'[', the length value, or the ']'?
>> What do the bits in the "Flags" field of the 3.0 debug message mean? Does
>> "few bytes of future-proofing flags" mean that there are currently no flag
>> bits defined, so that the field should always be zero, but there might be
>> flag bits defined in the future?
> They mean. "Reserved for future use". The value currently can be arbitrary
> and until someone defines values for them, they have no meaning. I'll make
> this more specific in the doc.
So is there something in the debug message to indicate whether the field has no
meaning and should be ignored, or has a meaning and should be interpreted?
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