<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:25 AM <<a href="mailto:j443i8@goat.si">j443i8@goat.si</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I was thinking of contributing to the Board Status but i dont want to <br>
release any private data and wont contribute now. What is the usage of <br>
the world to know what mac address the people are using?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Thanks for pointing out these issues.<div><br></div><div>For what it's worth, the user must use the '-u' option to upload results. And as Arthur points out you can edit logs and such yourself to scrub any private data. The script just automates a few steps for convenience, though obviously we'd like a reasonably uniform data set to compare with. You're right that we don't need to know anyone's MAC address for coreboot development; however as others have pointed out a full kernel log is useful since firmware issues often manifest themselves there (memory map incorrect, devices not enabled, etc) so it's good to have them for comparison.</div><div><br></div><div>Still, a pause as Mike suggested and perhaps a scary warning or two could be useful.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Then there can be for example a simple live linux iso that people can boot <br>
with LAN cable connected. No requirement of installation software, of <br>
setting things up or anything like that.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is one - See util/board_status/set_up_live_image.sh .</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>