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Fix and add options to standalone FW TP configuration generation #22

Closed hristovaivana closed 2 years ago

hristovaivana commented 2 years ago

Following Pierre's fix for the new boot configuration, this PR is to 1) fix error he reported when running nanorc with the configuration from

readoutapp_gen -n 0 -t 1 tpapp.json

and a tp_frames.bin file from https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/zaOYX1tPT4cG3Fx

2) add options to set, a) the offline channel map name, and b) a constant for the stitching algorithm, from the command line.

This standalone readout configuration generation was tested and works with the following setup 

source /cvmfs/dunedaq.opensciencegrid.org/setup_dunedaq.sh
setup_dbt latest-spack
dbt-create -b candidate -c rc-dunedaq-v3.1.0-1 test_area
cd test_area
cd sourcecode
git clone https://github.com/DUNE-DAQ/readoutmodules.git -b prep-release/dunedaq-v3.1.0
cd ..
dbt-workarea-env
dbt-build -j16
find . -name readoutapp_gen -type f -print
readoutapp_gen -n 0 -t 1 tpapp.json
bieryAtFnal commented 2 years ago

I was able to successfully run readoutapp_gen with these changes and generate a configuration. When I tried to run it, I saw messages in the logfile along the lines of PdspChannelMapService: Bad fiber number, falling back to 1. Ununderstood fiber number: 23. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong (probably). This generally look good.

hristovaivana commented 2 years ago

Hi Kurt, many thanks! Yes, these errors are a good point. This could be caused by the content in the input file tp_frames.bin or the decoding of those binary data. That would be good to fix to remove those errors, I'll be having a look at that and the fixes will eventually affect the fdreadoutlibs or detdataformats packages (assuming the input file is ok). That's why this standalone test is useful for us to find and fix such problems.

Oh, I know the reason now for these errors. This could/likely be because the candidate release has switched to the WIB2 format for the FW TPs, and tp_frames.bin contains WIB1 data. I need to prepare a new tp_frames.bin file from a WIB2 data capture or simulated patterns file.

hristovaivana commented 2 years ago

I created and tested with a WIB2 tp_frames.bin file, located here https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/FqMXxSpM3WjgeCN. The errors Kurt noticed above no longer appear in the logs.