Re: [coreboot] coreboot system analyzer

[Paul Menzel]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 15:21 +0100 schrieb Carl-Daniel
Hailfinger:
> This is a ready-made script which gathers all information about a system 
> we could want to evaluate whether porting is possible and/or easy.
>
> The idea behind it is to get loads of people to run the script and help 
> us analyze coverage of flashrom and superiotool, together with board 
> distribution among willing testers.
> In the future, this could include the ICH GPIO dumper, the K8 resource 
> dumper, the MCP55 configuration dumper and a few other utilities.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Great idea.
> acpidump >acpidump.txt

The problem is, that it is not certain, that acpidump is installed on
the system (It is not on mine). So maybe we should test for the
existence. I do not know of a better way to check, whether a program is
in the path.

if [ -f /usr/bin/acpidump ]
  then
    acpidump > acpidump.txt
  else
    echo "Please install acpidump of the pmtools package."
    echo "Debian-based: sudo aptitude install acpidump ."
fi

or
  else
    wget http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools-200711...
    tar xjvf pmtools-20071116.tar.bz2
    cd pmtools-20071116/acpidump/
    make
    ./acpidump > acpidump.txt
fi

An other thing is, whether the script should use sudo and compile the
programs with the right of the normal user.

Regards,

Paul