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Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

157 pointsby Julio-Guerraover 9 years ago

8 comments

josteinkover 9 years ago
Looks like a good initiative.<p>Would probably get more feedback if there was some simple scripts included which conducted and prepared a folder with all the logs for you.<p>Right now it looks like quite a bit of manual work, which could easily be cut down by providing a simple shell script. It doesn&#x27;t even have to get you all the way (clone repo, get correct vendor+board, etc), but at least provide you with all the logfiles, consistently named. The readme could then guide you to what blanks you need to fill in yourself in the end.<p>Hopefully the currently half-baked state of this otherwise good initiative doesn&#x27;t cause too many people who could have contributed to bail out.
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rogeryuover 9 years ago
So you want us to share our results? Then make it easy. Make a step by step guide. Include commands or scripts that we can execute. Show us what to upload where.<p>Take a common case scenario like with Ubuntu 14.04. Make screenshots of every step or copy every command you use in the terminal. Then you might get response.
snvzzover 9 years ago
Seems like a good idea, but the implementation is poor.<p>Please just write a tool that does the set of tests, displays results and optionally submits them.<p>Then distributions could package it, and people could run it.<p>The way it needs to be done right now implies too much effort and few people are going to bother.
onliover 9 years ago
That&#x27;s a nice idea. Vaguely remember seeing something like this before, but since I don&#x27;t know where that&#x27;s not a problem. Might&#x27;ve been an Ubuntu initiative from a few years ago and was not necessarily only the firmware.<p>The introduction is missing that coreboot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coreboot.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coreboot.org&#x2F;</a>) exists.<p>Suggestion: Make it easier to contribute. I have no idea how to get fwts to give me the files shown for the example. Why not add a script that calls fwts the right way and formats the output as needed, and maybe uploads the result to somewhere?
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nojaover 9 years ago
Here is an easier to use bootable live image: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;FirmwareTestSuite&#x2F;FirmwareTestSuiteLive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;FirmwareTestSuite&#x2F;FirmwareTestSuiteL...</a>
yuhongover 9 years ago
There is also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2014&#x2F;9&#x2F;13&#x2F;103" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2014&#x2F;9&#x2F;13&#x2F;103</a>
Julio-Guerraover 9 years ago
I updated the README to include your comments. Thanks for the feedback.
zsmith928over 9 years ago
such an interesting thread, thanks for bringing this up!<p>At Packet, we&#x27;ve been working to support CoreOS and their Distributed Trusted Computing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tectonic.com&#x2F;trusted-computing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tectonic.com&#x2F;trusted-computing&#x2F;</a>) for our on-demand bare metal product. This relies on UEFI vs traditional BIOS. Reading up on this I&#x27;ve certainly learned a ton! A good background article I read was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.happyassassin.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;25&#x2F;uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.happyassassin.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;25&#x2F;uefi-boot-how-does-...</a>
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